I can see the hours required for upgrade increased due to the experience of new hires or lack of. Hours do not reflect experience anymore.
Do more hours make you better or worse at handling the type of incident we’re discussing here? Would someone with 10,000 hours on the 777, i.e. 10,000hrs of autothrottle usage be preferable to someone who had 200hrs but it was all manual or would it be the other way round?
I remember when converting onto my first jet that I had very few problems with the physical handling of go-arounds and the like but often didn’t press the right buttons to sync the automatics. That was fine as an outcome as the flightpath was as intended and it didn’t take long to reengage the right modes once capacity allowed. ANC as posted above.