Good heavens, what a fruitless discussion.
Certainly not
This discussion has taught me that Airbus had never considered (or tested) that AOA probes (a very important item for collecting data to be used by the flight computers) can be blocked and therefore could not know the impact on automatic flight and thus had never issued a procedure for this kind of incident
This kind of accident was however easy to predict (even if he never occurred before) when you know in what environment these aircraft are operated
EVA Air pilots thus (against their will) made this test and found a procedure
This discovery is worth its weight in gold .. isn't it ?