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Originally Posted by M&M Guy
I'm not sure if this part of your question has been answered, but if I'm reading this right, are you asking why the arrow would switch on a throw-in team violation, but it wouldn't switch on (what some would say is worse) a foul?
The way I've had it explained to me is a foul (usually) carries a somewhat harsher penalty - sometimes giving up points as well as the possession. Losing the arrow, even though the throw-in has not been completed, would be yet an additional penalty for that foul. Simple play - B is in the bonus, and A sets an illegal screen during the AP throw-in. Since there is no team control, A loses the possesion, and B shoots the one-and-one. Perhaps the committee feels that taking away the arrow as well would be too harsh a penalty to add to that common foul.
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Another point...
About the only way for the offense to violate on the throwin is to commit a throwin violation. A foul is more orthogonal to the throwin itself. It can happen during a throwin but is just as likely to occur any other time. When a team messes up the throwin, they lose the throwin and the right to the throwin. They foul, it has its own penalty.