> How many pilots, trained or not, really have any experience with a 100,000 ton ship in a crash situation with responses where seconds matter?

I think you are missing the point.

Clearly I am speculating, but I don't think any more experience would have helped in this event.

Why ? I think what happened today was almost entirely down to not being able to fight the basic Laws of Physics.

Its a well known fact that enormous ships take an equally enormous amount of time and distance to reflect the actions of the captain. You make an input and you see the result a bunch of time and distance later.

Time and distance were, sadly, not on the captain's side today. Physics took care of the rest.