I am sorry to put it so bluntly but this crash would NOT have happened had the Captain not tried a 'smart fix' of the ECAM by pulling the CB's. Let's not forget that this EXACT procedure is expressly and clearly forbidden in the aircraft flight manuals.
This was the origin of the event, the poor manipulative skills of the crew were only exposed by this fool hardy action. The ECAM wasn't even serious! Could have written it up and left the reset to the Engineer, yes it had been faulted on numerous occasions but as the Captain if you have a problem with this then don't accept the aircraft!
This is up there with the crew who crashed the aircraft into the Everglades whilst trying to replace a landing gear light bulb, a minor tech problem that has been poorly managed which has led to total hull loss.
The question of the crews inability to recover the aircraft is an industry wide problem, in our attempts to remove the human element from incidents we have created a generation of pilots who are now causing crashes due to piss poor manipulative skills e.g. Air France, Air Asia, Asiana .........