"Everybody does these tricks"
Well not quite. Only those designing and certifying to the new rules. There are lots of planes out there that still need to avoid weather.
And just to get back to the original subject, tha is precisely what went wrong. The engine did have the latest and greatest but unfortinately like most environmental issues one can not design for all possible encounters. This guy just flew into a 1 in E-8 storm.
Prudence goes hand in hand with engineering in aviation.