unworry, keep on worrying; bud leon also.
You don’t need experts to ask the right question, which if identified might help us understand that which is clouded by hindsight.
Consider the assumption “If they knew they were in a stall …”; there is little or no CVR information which would confirm that the crew knew that they were in a stall, and their actions were as required to return to wings level and the datum altitude by following the FD (#3722 Check Airman).
With hindsight it’s easy to assume that the crew were aware of the stall warning, low airspeed, etc, but we humans only hear and see what we wish too, or what we are capable of in situations of high mental workload.
Looking for similarities in other accidents (we can always find what we look for) compare this with AF447 or even Colgan; did those crews understand the situation. Their control inputs were not necessarily rushed, but consistent with the situation that they perceived – doing what they always do.