This was another completely unnecessary accident.
All things considered:
1. It is completely inappropriate and unnecessary to still be flying "Non-Precision" approaches in 2013 with big jets. There are vastly better ways to land, using means via FMS, RNP, and GLS (while ILS is OK in many places as an interim aid, it is far too expensive and technically difficult and electronically sensitive to put ILS everywhere, and be sustained for the indefinite future).
2. Properly implemented RNP, FMS, VNAV (and especially GLS) can fix this decades long chronic issue, virtually 100% of the time.
3. No pilot (short of a willful act) wants to end up where this crew ended up. Hence, to varying degrees, a lot of other people, including authorities (flawed or obsolete policies and criteria), OEMs (lack of adopting and updating better methods and techniques), ANSPs (failure to implement modern SIAP types and systems), and even the airline itself (using less than modern or optimum policies, training, and equipment) perhaps helped them get where they ended up.
4. Let's just see where the NTSB ends up on this one now.