Good point well made CT.
Everyone needs to think about how they would handle an unexpected system response by the aircraft or mistake by someone else at a time critical point, leading to your own confusion and how you will resolve that confusion. How you would communicate the resolution to the other pilot? Not so easy is it? We are all vulnerable to the unexpected at just the wrong time.
This in particular goes to the heart of the matter. Its not as simple as "Well they should've just pushed the thrust levers up at the start!" By the time they worked through their own confusion as to what was going on, time and gravity had taken over.