thehighlander
You are right, but there's also a certification issue. No-one seems to think it odd that it's legal (certified) to have an autopilot that under certain conditions in cruise gives back control of the plane to the pilots. The same conditions in which the pilots are not trained to fly the plane.
It was made worse (probably made fatal) by the crew making no attempt to follow AF's clearly set out procedure for 'unreliable airspeed'.