Angelorange: Exactly.
Those 2 F/Os had no professional and manual experience of the stall after their CPL and 200 hours! Not even in the Airbus sim! Sure enough: at the first instrument failure they had in their life (speed indicator?), entered because of their action in a stall, and stayed there because of their action until the crash.
The proof you don't start your career in an airliner (especially an Airbus) with no background experience.
The last pilot who landed an Airbus in the Hudson bay didn't learn how to fly on an Airbus. You have to get more than 200 hours and you have to get some multi captain IFR experience before starting on an airliner, as you won't learn to fly on it, you are supposed to be a pilot mastering the basics already, which asks a few thousands of GA/military experience. Cruise autopilot on Airbus (even a few thousands hours before your captain upgrade) won't teach you much when it comes to real flying.
The proof this systems doesn't work. It was a crash waiting to happen. In fact it did happen.
The FAA got it right. If you cannot get the airlines to hire using common sense (like in Canada), then you have to implement some rules.