Not good enough, Wally. The
main reason we're in the cockpit is to handle the unexpected/abnormal. If the industry can't/won't train us to cope, then prangs like this will re-occur. Of course, having a machine that does things differently when it has spat the dummy is IMO one of the main causes here. Surely you are not justifying the 60kt feature? Also, nice touch, the full auto-trim back as it slowed down... While making it easy to fly normally, if oyu were putting in incorrect pitch inputs, why would you want the stab to exacerbate those inputs by trimming with you?
A big part of this was the "surprise" aspect. It's all well and good in the sim, even if you do don't exactly know what is going happen; you will probably cope as you are at a hightened state of alertness and already thinking out of the box. On the line is a different matter. Hours and hours of autopilot flying doesn't help the stick and rudder skills, which I'm convinced in turn help one correctly diagnose this sort of situation.
you could fully stall an aircraft wings level from the flight levels all the way to the ground, without any indication of a wing drop or roll instability. Are these things that stable?
AF 447 had roll oscillations up to 40° and did an almost 240° right turn whilst descending.