To me it's very simple: flying in direct law at higher speed in crosswinds IS DIFFICULT.
Simple as that.
Captain screwed the flaiir.
Period.
He overcontrolled.
He smashed his aircraft on the runway.
End of story.
I've hated airbus from the first day I transitioned from Boeing, for various reasons.
The change in feeling and reaction to the same side stick input, if in direct law, is another insult to the pilot's basic instincts....
If superjet is the same, and if it is true, as I've got no difficulties to believe, that the worst pilots in Aeroflot get to fly it instead of A and B, then everything is clear to me.
Public must realise that, contrary to what they'd like to think, their lives are still in pilots hands, literally, and an apparently insignificant difference in hands, makes the difference between life and death, let it be in Indonesia, Ethiopia, or Russia....