@RatherBeFlying
Yes, great ideas. The one thing about a display is that its not static..meaning, when things start to really go awry, designers should use the display to focus the pilots attention - perhaps remove extraneous detail - as opposed to overloading the crew in situations when you dont want them to be overloaded with information.
When your dropping at -10k fpm its quite easy to calculate when you will instantly go to 0 fpm if the conditions remain unchanged ! If a crew is unaware ( I am assuming ) that they are falling at such a rate, then there is a weakness with the interface. In conditions that fall outside of expected behaviour, clarity of information to the crew is paramount.
Even after two years, the posts here show a diverse range of opinion. I am sure the pilots wanted to get home as much as anyone else on the flight, but they, and everyone else on board had their final flight. The technology is there. The man/machine interface still needs to be addressed.