I am also quite uncomfortable with the fact that the pilots struggle to attain the pitch up attitude they wanted. Why let stab have more power than elevator by design?
FDR shows unused elevator travel, so it was a force problem.Feel system being 100% artificial (up to the point in which the hydraulic system does not have enough power to lift the elevator), it leaves two possible scenarios:
1) Feel system may overpower a human (I hope not). If it can, it is in this situation (a lot of airspeed, a lot of deflection, boost because of stall (false)). If it does, why not reduce its power a bit?
2) Elevator could not fight the aerodinamic forces (possible). It may be possible to enlarge the balance tab / increase the size of the hydraulic actuators at the expense of elevator speed?
Not saying those are sensible modifications, only trying to understand that specific design decision (which by the way is quite popular among other manufacturers, but far from standard).