"Again, it's because of a sytem on board this and similar aircraft that led to this accident, even if it turns out to be 'pilot error' in the end."
DC-ATE, in this instance it was a system of a fbw aircraft. If they had done a test on a conventional aircraft it would have been a stall protection system. The point is surely that it shouldn't have been done at that part of the envelope at all! FBW is a very effective concept of aircraft design but even it can't stop the human error chain and its ability to over ride protections, regrettably sometimes inappropriately.
Given a choice between a low energy state in a product of Airbus or McDonnell Douglas and I will take the airbus product every time!!