Human beings do the best that they can at the time with the resources available to them.
You have to look at the entire "system" which has resulted in this catastrophic failure. This would include, but not be limited to, a/c design, maintenance, airline safety culture systems, pilot selection and training etc.
Negative!!! A pilots are in command of their aircraft, aircraft systems, and regime of flight. It just comes down to negligence! We are not talking low IFR conditions here. It was plain dereliction of duty on all in the cockpit!
Those poor passengers and cabin crew did not have to have their lives sacrifised do to incompetence of the crew!