I'm not wondering anymore about having autothrottle that controls power levers
or even the pedantic old timers who insist on 'auto throttle control thrust levers' and the prickly one about if "THRHLD" (thrust hold) is controlled by throttles or thrust levers. And when the LEFT engine is vibrating or leaking oil you shut down ENG 1. Possibly because the T-Levers came from B707 and thus they had numbers on them. If the fuselage & overhead switches came from B707 why not the T-levers as well? If things don't change they remain the same and somewhere there is a warehouse built and full in the expectation that B707 would still be ruling the world. As someone said, "nostalgia is not what it used to be."