In this accident training might have helped, so too a better design of automation. Our choice is with hindsight, where the challenge is to foresee such situations and avoid them, require improved technology and the best of human abilities to manage situations which we have difficulty in imagining.
I don’t really agree that our choice is with hindsight.
The reliance on the auto-thrust in high workload situations on types where it is engaged for every departure, cruise and landing has been discussed for years. From memory I think it might have even come up in the 777 accident report that cart-wheeled in the states.
In a high workload situation the basics of flying should be available through muscle-memory.
When they forgot to follow through, you fail the A/T and let nature take its course
Sounds like good training to me.