HC
I am not against good automation in any way - it is obviously the safest way to make an approach in marginal conditions. The 225 seems to be an excellent machine for this and well trained crews will cope with "outages" if the system has a fault.
My point is the disconnect between "systems management" and "piloting".
the fault was a failure to monitor, not an inability to fly.
I disagree with your comment - the fault was failure to manage the system - including monitoring the ASI and AH and when the system showed failure modes - low air speed etc the "piloting" skills should have taken over to increase airspeed and probably power. If this had been done then "piloting" skills would have saved the day.
By definition if a serviceable a/c crashes the pilot has failed to fly it safely.
HF