I agree with peekay4 on this one. Blaming automation has almost become the pilots' scape goat. We push crew to use a balance of manual skills and automation, but when anything goes wrong we immediately say they should have used the other method.
I think this gets to the heart of it:
The probe into the incident, on 1 February 2016, adds that the winds had been "challenging" and that the first officer, at the time, had been undertaking his first line-training flight after a near half-year absence on medical grounds.
Perhaps rather than the automation being at fault, it was the decision to allow the FO to attempt a landing in such conditions after so much time away that should be questioned. Not saying he couldn't handle it, but you don't throw "new guys" to the wolves on their first flight or, in this case, first flight back. Line Indoc is meant to train for the line, not to scare the hell out of you.