why can't a pilot simply ... use pitch/power...
It's a question I ask myself almost daily, but still hulls are lost every few years where recovery should have been straightforward, many often I suspect disorientated by conflicting instruments/warnings and unable to think calmly and straight. Like to think it wouldn't happen to me, but never say never, problem is situations like this escalate real fast into an irrecoverable state.
If its the case here it certainly won't be the last.