@TowerDog:
No idea what the background of these pilots were, but only 3,300 hours each.
With all due respect, I think your amount of hours and experience may distort your view just a slight bit. Yes, 3300TT is only a fraction of your experience, but it is still several years worth of flying even if you would hit your yearly limit all the time. Depending on their backgrounds they could have a combined flight experience of 10+ years which is not insignificant... As you know there are planes being flown full of passengers with less experience on the flight deck and often coming from just one of the pilots.
I have yet to read the full report, but from the comments here it does sound like they could have used a background in older planes with steam gauges. Cross checking is second nature there, at least in my experience on the type I flew; "Hmm, my ADI is tumbling away, is yours still OK?".