Mistaking runway 05R for 05L when both are parallel is more understandable though. It was also at night, in poor weather, and the airport had not blocked off the unusable runway (!) and did not have the gear to track aircraft locations on the ground.

I'm surprised there isn't more explicit tooling in the cockpit to stop that happening

As I understand it, planes are largely automated but the automated components will always defer to the pilots whenever action is taken. I would hope with the amount of training required to do that job that the pilot would be the half of that equation to defer to.

As I understand it (but I am not a pilot), that's true of Boeing planes, but not true of Airbus. Airbus makes the pilots defer to the automation.