That's easy to say. What about in a critical situation where your stress level is shooting through the roof, the airplane is 30 degrees AOA, it's moving forward at 90kts groundspeed, there's no visible horizon, the instruments don't seem to make sense, and everything seems wrong? I don't think it's excusable that pilots can't understand basic aerodynamics, but if the system is designed so that it is detrimental to figuring out what is going on, it has flaws. Rickair7777 makes some great points, in fact, I think his summation is the best I've seen.