If people in your company are in the habit of trusting that their FMA input is sufficient, then yes, I understand why the verbal call may make sense in that case.
On my first jet, you HAD to read the FMA- there was simply no way of getting around it. That's probably why I'm having such a hard time understanding why it's necessary to call it out. It's something that i just do reflexively. It feels a lot like having to call out "trim" every time I move the trim switch in a conventional airplane.
Never heard of an airline doing a call of "RA alive". Why not just enable the automatic 2500ft call?
On a tangent, did anyone here fly the A300/310? Did Airbus recommend FMA callouts on those airplanes as well?