TAROM was a replay of Condor with fewer wash rinse spin cycles. It was very close to CAL #1 Nagoya, and CAL #2 at CKS.
Fighting the AP becomes fun on an A300/310, and the passengers get a free disney ride. Overriding an autopilot would be nice if it led to AP disconnect, however we have seen that also end in tears in the everglades, and various other wild rides where the disconnect gets out of sorts.
Once the aircraft is out of trim with the THS and has an adverse thrust couple, the elevator authority is going to get compromised, and a wild ride often ensures. Pilot training is supposed to make up for deficient design, however that is all well and good until you get cognitive overload from a dynamic event, which the data of TAROm shows was a wild ride. Doing low level aeros is best as an observer sport, or after lots of practice in the box.
Pilots are human, any pilot encountering a compromised pitch condition at low altitude (or anywhere arguably) is going to have a pants load of adrenalin running along. Training mitigates bad design, it doesn't guarantee a positive outcome always.
TAROM like Condor, was lucky. Electrojets can get out of sort too, as USAirs A320 in Reagan, ANZ's A320 @ Perpignan did. The first one got away with it, the second one ended badly in headlines.