Yup, it sure is. Nobody intentionally makes mistakes; that's why they're called mistakes.
I don't have the number of diverts,. but, quoting the accident report:
ATC recorded all missed approaches (or ‘go-arounds’) and landings
at HKIA. During the early afternoon, when a crosswind of
35-45 kt prevailed and RW 07R was in use, ATC reported that there
had been many go-arounds because of the weather conditions, and
only occasional successful landings. Following go-arounds by
three successive aircraft between 0727 hr and 0742 hr, and with the
wind observed as backing to northwesterly, the runway was changed
to 25L. Two further go-arounds followed, but the successful
landing rate then improved so that in the period between 0947 hr
and the accident at 1043 hr, six aircraft landed and only one had to
go-around, the latter occurring at 1034 hr.
So of the three landings attempted in the previous ten minutes, only one was unsuccessful. The odds were in his favor. For the next flight coming in, of course, the odds would be 50/50
as for the "sudden elevator reversal" being used to counter windshear, this very well could have been a case where superior flying skills were irrelevant.
Maybe they were setting up a pro-Boeing kangaroo court in HK, but after a serious event like this, does it bother anyone else that the only interview the captain (a former MD-11 training captain "for a major national carrier" in Europe) gives is to the press, and in that interview, places the blame on the equipment?