From reading the article, I do not agree that the pilots were fully to blame. The article lists a large number of critical deficiencies in the airport including lack of radar and poor planning. The pilots were sent into an improvised holding pattern that was dangerous.

Yes, the pilots made multiple mistakes, and if they'd avoided any of them, this wouldn't have happened.

But I see it as a group failure - on the part of the airport, the air traffic controlled, and the pilots.

Blaming just the pilots is unreasonable, particularly when Tenerife had not remedied the issues that caused the previous terrible accident, including the missing radar.