It is natural for pilots to try to think up a way to salvage a bad situation.
One suggestion in this accident thread is that perhaps lowering the nose to build airspeed in ground effect and/or select flaps might just have saved the day. Simulator trials by the investigation may well address that tactic, but achievable climb gradient is a major factor. Hitting an obstacle at high speed is a bad thing whether in the ground or in the air.
The bigger question is how a presumably well trained and conscientious crew missed this one.
First world air carriers do extremely well. That record perhaps breeds an expectation that you and your crew mates don't make mistakes while in fact you and they are people like anybody else who can screw up at unpredictable moments.
Errare humanum est never goes away.