"Both pilots demonstrated an ability to do so in their sim training, hence why they occupied those seats." was not included in the Final Report. They had no sim training after the Lion Air Preliminary report, the Emergency AD, or the FCOM update. In practice the simulators were unable to have a valid, but incorrect AoA sensor reading, so they could not have been trained in a sim at all.
Still, they also failed to shut off the autothrottle and establish a pitch and power setting in accordance with the stall warning procedure.
Read the FDR graphs - they did nothing that was required to recover initially. They did many things that they were told to never do. They could have re-enable the trim and re-trimmed the plane, but did not do that either.
It is relevant that a plane with a known, uncorrected defect, would be put into the hands of a crew similar to the one that crashed, particularly on a newly purchased, pride of country airplane. At the time of ET-302 it wasn't a latent defect. It was clearly exposed.