Flying manually the pilots made an error when setting the required thrust that nearly caused the plane to run off the runway without getting off the ground?
Is that correct? In which case it seems like pilot error.
A) The autothrottle disengaged due to the bug, and the throttle defaulted back to some previously set value, without the pilots knowledge.
B) The pilots disabled the autothrottle to avoid a bug, and also failed to set the throttle correctly.
Disabling automation because of a bug and doing manual stuff is how things break.
This is true in WebPKI, it’s true in planes as well.
The problem is dropping automation BECAUSE it fails.
They aren't able to rely on the automation because it's faulty - and as consequence error rate increases.