This is what I've been trying to get across.
PM is not being coached by PF into seeing the same thing. Therefore I'd expect PM to chirp up quite early on and challenge PF about where they were landing.
But apart from that hesitation in his voice when ATC told him they had the runway - he too seemed locked on to a false reality.
It is absolutely nothing to do with professionalism or capability it is all to do with cognition and perception - human factors experiments Repeatedly show the brain has limits and cannot work in some ways.
IMHO Those rows of aircraft lights fooled them both. Tiredness factor to add perhaps, but despite the magnitude of the incident, my heart goes out to those two guys.