Right: if you go up to a regular "manual" table and try to slide the dice, the dealer/stickperson/boxperson/pit boss will call "no roll", tell you what you did wrong (likely with some level of annoyance in their tone), and have you roll again. (Keep doing it and you might get kicked out, though.) It's up to the casino employees to ensure the rules are followed. (But if they miss something, IMO that's on them.)
And to your point about warnings from dealers, many people walk up to a craps table for the first time not knowing what they're doing, expecting to learn on the go (and most craps dealers are happy to help, if you ask questions nicely and not while they're in the middle of counting payouts). There's no rule that says you can play a casino game only after first memorizing the rule book for that game.
If you go up to an "auto" table, and there's no one supervising it (or, say, just one person who can't possibly watch everything), then the casino is implicitly saying that the software on the table is good enough to help ensure the rules are followed. If it's not, then that's on them.
I do think that card counting and dice sliding aren't quite in the same league, though. Making a rule against card counting seems itself unfair; the game is about probabilities, and card counting is an integral part of determining those probabilities (given a hypothetical naive casino that'd give you single-deck blackjack these days). But a rule for craps that says "you can't roll the dice in a way that lets you determine the outcome before rolling" seems... pretty reasonable to me? The game would be pretty pointless if the shooter could just call out the numbers they want, and that'd be the roll.
Either way, criminal charges for dice sliding is messed up. If the person supervising the auto table (or the auto table itself) didn't enforce the rules properly... welp, maybe the supervisor needs better training, or the table needs better software.