Properly trained crews anywhere can be as good or as bad as anywhere else. However if they are allowed to pressurized by corporate greed and face punishment by a culture of fear and intimidation, that is a recipe for disaster. This is especially so for inexperienced pilots who maybe allow themselves to be so pressured influencing incorrect decisions. This is where, a proper regulator that ensures this doesn't occur is the real problem, as I see it.
Here we have a very senior captain on a routine flight, which was also routine for the many other airplanes in the same sky at the same time.
It is difficult to extrapolate this accident into an issue centering on 'corporate greed' or ' a culture of fear and intimidation'.
That just seems a cop out to me when we have a very specific accident to evaluate.