The handling of the approach sounds incompetent, but what part of the 'Go Around' instruction did they not understand,that it took 50 secs to comply.
I believe it is a `culture` problem. First of all it is probably "it can't be happening to me" or even the captain thinking "WTF is ATC on about- I can see the runway even though it looks a bit flat" Quickly followed by "real men don't go around" otherwise it's loss of face.