Maybe it's time to remove those force feedback thrust levers and those dodgy little TOGA buttons.
All the 777 guys tell me a key safety feature of the 777 is that you get 'tactile' feedback of the thrust position. It seems in 3 recent crashes: Asiana, the 737 at AMS and this one, despite having those moving levers the crew managed to get the wrong thrust on the aircraft. Shadowing moving thrust levers is pointless unless you actually regularly use them manually.
If not using the manual thrust why not use the thrust levers to engage the auto-thrust mode you want......