But I didn't see where he explained why the PNF (apparently mistakenly) thought the aircraft had achieved the positive rate of climb necessary before retracting the landing gear, or why, even if it he thought it had, he didn't leave the gear down as Boeing recommends for a TOGA after a bounced landing.
Maybe they already anticipated that they were operating at the performance limits, and tried to reduce drag as much as possible.
According to the FedEx Narita report, it is not always easy in a bounce to understand whether you are actually climbing, or just rotating. The FedEx Pilots did probably not realize that they were climbing again, the two Emirates guys may have believed they were actually climbing, but in fact they were not.
I do also assume that the sensation of acceleration in a simulator is a bit different from what you actually feel if you rotate a long fuselage. Simulators have not that much vertical space to move.
I really hope for full recorder data becoming available.