Reasonable minds may, and often do, hold divergent views on what ails the civil justice system (or, whether anything ails it).
It's not a veiled attitude of "close the courthouse doors to these people" to view a particular high-profile trial lawyer as an extreme version of how the system works most all the time (such workings, as OldnGrounded points out). Of course, along their way, such a lawyer becomes hugely accomplished, feared, even given "legend" ststus. I don't think other lawyers, though, necessarily are ineffective, despite a less intense approach.
But the point that concerns me - again, as atty-SLF - is that the furor arising along with the naturally expected claims could end up interfering with the focus on the inquiry (by the airline and the FAA). Maybe it is a situation where all the answers to what happened? and why? will turn out to be simple to find and simple to disseminate throughout civil aviation, despite the legal pressures. The amount and scope of substantive comments in this thread could suggest it might not be so simple, though.