So you mean sitting with the stick pulled fully back for 3,5 minutes while you are descending with 10000 fpm demonstrates a "totally professional attitude"?
First of all paying tribute to those men is not a matter of arrogance but of decency.
No, what I'm saying is at that point, to them pulling on that stick appeared to be the best way to save the plane.
Considering what we know now (which is, as has been said numerous times, still very little), that was likely not the case and probably the final report will prove us, sitting in our comfy chairs, right and those men who died that night wrong.
But what then? It's so easy to shrug it off, label them as idiots and go back to business, while learning from their mistakes will be work and will cost money. But I think we owe it to them.