There is not a pilot alive today who may not be tomorrow as the result of a cock up. Even those considered the best come to grief, Chuck Yeager punched out of an F-104 and came within inches of losing his life having lost control through poor instrument flying skills, Bob Hoover refuelled with AVTUR instead of AVGAS and had a double engine failure on take off, survived but air frame never saw air again. Another crew member in the cockpit? L-1011 crashed in the Everglades while the crew were dealing with a failed U/C light, two 747's rolled inverted on take off and crashed because the PF's attitude indicator had failed. No one has yet bred an infallible human.
What Kobe needed in this flight was a properly trained IFR operation, single, two, or multicrew doesn't much matter.
No one could disagree with that.
I'm intrigued that the report makes no mention of the state of SAS, force trim, auto pilot modes etc, even to state that the status of switch positions or lit captions could not be determined. Rather germane to the accident in my mind.