Gonna stick my neck out here, but I feel incidents such as this would be avoided if the SOP was simply "fly the a/c up to the G/A altitude".
Without the confusion of following infrequently practised procedures, it would be a walk in the park to apply a moderate amount of thrust, level the a/c, tweak the thrust as appropriate and simply hand fly it back up, calling for gear and flap as appropriate.
I guarantee any competent pilot would make a much cleaner job of it rather than trying to obey flight directors and rigorous memory items with a massively overpowered light a/c like the 757.
In the world we live in, this would never happen though...........