Not wanting to bash the guys, but i have a hard time reading some statements on here (or for that matter on the A/SFO incident).
We constantly highlight our responsibility for up to 600 souls, defending our salaries, the need for qualified colleagues, the importance of experience and training .......
We constantly point to the importance of human presence in cockpits, its specific superiority when it comes to interpretation, foresight, basically SA ......
therefore, when it comes to a severe incident we should not as fast, even with well meant assistance to fellow aviators, or because it could happen to us as well, point to other participants (ATC), or possible automatic back-ups (CPDLC, TCAS) or cry for additional automatics.
We are the finally responsible for safe flight and we are still well present in cockpits for a reason. Thus we have to assume responsibility!
There were enough possibilities to pick up the error in understanding the clearance. The easiest one was when hearing the clearance for the opposing aircraft to climb to FL370. The next by the apparently not observing the oncoming and conflicting TCAS symbol.
Simply these two omissions point to an irresponsible lack of SA. It will need a lot of investigating and convincing to change my two cents on this.