yanrair, for every Hero, there's a Zero - that's the law of averages. Pilots are no longer heroes, nor should they be. A safe system is one that reduces risk as low as reasonably practical and, whether we like it or not, a human being brings a huge pile of risk to any system. Pilots are not masters of the system, we are a part of it. For sure, these two crashes may have been avoided by the flick of two switches. But that wasn't the way it worked out and many of us think it rather disingenuous to pile the overwhelming burden of responsibility on the Zeros pilots.
"Just flick the switches and revert to manual" - that is confirmation bias at it's worst, being indicative of an industry that no long takes an active role in looking at itself.