I think what has been forgotten in this thread is that there was a technical failure of the aircraft (the autothrottle). The failure was subtle, was masked by the approach profile and the aircraft's alerting of that failure was inadequate to get the attention of the crew. I would argue that the human machine interface of the alerting system was antiquated and the design, while certified, was not made in consideration of how the system was actually being used in normal operations. That the crew were unable to capture and then mitigate these upstream failures was unfortunate but hardly worthy of some of the comments appended here.
Regarding the original question, I'd suggest that an A320 with a subtle and poorly alerted technical failure would be in just as bad a place. Perpignan in 2008 showed just that and the eventual speed and pitch figures there are similar to THOF's.
Remove the failure and the incident wouldn't have happened.