That is called muscle memory, and went out of the window a long time ago.
It has been transfered to the finger. CLICK.
Presumably these systems have been designed by techies. Why? Because they can? Someone, or team, has discussed this and decided that simplifying some aspects of flying is better & therefore safer. That philosophy is now open to question, after various misunderstanding screw ups. There is talk about removing muscle memory and the years old intuitive actions with various manoeuvres. The conclusion comes that this over-simplification via automatics is not safer. It removes tactile feedback to the pilot. I wonder if human behaviour experts were part of the design team when basic manual actions were designed out by automatics.