This thread is getting away, as usual, onto Airbus perceived faults bythose who don't have any idea how good it is and how safe it can be compared to the geriatrics many of us pilots, including me, have flown.
May I just point at at the fact that , in all intents and purposes, this crew had managed to escape from the first stall situation and all they had to do was manually trim the aircraft and reduce the thrust - get out of TOGA-.
It should have been the end of the scare... but it wasn't as SA was no longer there (only explanation , IMO).
Another fact is on the final plunge, why accelerate / retract the high lift devices...? People are talking about protections that are no longer available in their actual laws...A slower speed, with flaps/slats out at 2.5 gs could have saved them too...