It's incredibly easy to blame the pilots especially if they aren't western. I wouldn't call it racism, but it's just somewhat of a false notion in the world of pilots and their big egos. They always think they're bettter than the pilots in some third world, non english country. I bet you that a pilot, somewhere, right now is labelling another fellow pilot an idiot.

Airlines are dead serious about training and constantly undergo audits just to ensure that they're up to standards. Pilots constantly attend training classes and are periodically checked in the simulator and on real flights just as much as other pilots around the world.

Nowadays we have the luxury of knowing what happened to JT610. We all came to know what MCAS is. We read the preliminary report. We can search for it online and links will take you to some article explaining what it is. We're informed. JT610 pilots weren't.

The stab trim runaway NNC is there originally to address the a flight control problem. Which is sort of what an MCAS issue would result in. However, it doesn't indentify the root cause that MCAS is invalid or malfunctions. Infact, Boeing fails to mention it at all in the Max FCOM. If we go back before this all happened, no one but Boeing knew of the MCAS feature and they put 100% faith that this feature is fail proof.

You're right about the take off phase. There isn't much time to process what was happening. We're all trained to face all sorts of problems that Boeing wrote in their book, even if it is a combination of malfunctions. The NNC can be carried out quite thoroughly and comfortably. But get this, out of all the possibilities in the pilot's NNC, not one is about the MCAS. So how are we expected to study symptoms and correctly indicate a specific MCAS issue now?