I can't imagine the feeling of both crew.
But now contemplate the situation had a crew either in flight experience or sim exposure to something similar.
Might they have been able to bring that experience to bear in time, for instance, to try asymmetric thrust as a counter in combination with aileron input ?
An effective initial solution doesn't always have to be elegant ... but it may need to be implemented very quickly without too much Monday morning quarterbacking if it is to have any real world probability of working ...