First principal good post but this goes far deeper than EFATOs. An analogy is driving a car through town without instinctively using the steering wheel to control direction. A professional pilot ( ie instructor) should be able to 'feel' the aircraft and react accordingly. This chap, for whatever reason, handled the aircraft like a computer game and it is purely luck that the stall/spin didn't kill him. I don't point a finger at the pilot, I point it at a training system which does not spend nearly enough time on the basics (ie before cct work). The whole slow speed regime needs to be instinctive.