Both main manufacturers and the airlines are leaning more and more towards a situation where the 'systems' hold sway and the pilots are virtually forbidden to fly manually
What chances did these guys have if they were trained to "understand the aircraft will never stall" and they never knew the stall warning would silence itself under 60kts.
Plummeting towards the ocean with no stall warning might lead someone to think they were heading "nosedown" into oblivion, especially in the middle of the ocean at night.