So the answer to too much automation is more automation?
If the idea is to make a plane that thousands of people on every continent can fly, regardless of whether they buy their licenses or earn them, then yes I guess the only way to fix a problem with the automation is to improve the automation. Because the alternative is to improve the pilot's ability to hand fly their way out of trouble, and the training system for *civilian* pilots just isn't set up to do that. While Airbus etc are set up to improve the automation.
And before you dismiss my provocative post - please reflect: Why is it relevant whether the two FO's on that plane were less experienced than the captain? Were those FO's really so bad that they can be improved on by any reasonably priced training or recruitment short of several thousand hours on type? Were they really any worse than an average third world captain?
Edmund