No, MCAS, to my knowledge, won't "overwhelm" the pilot like that, but I'm not a pilot or engineer, so don't quote me on that. There have been articles recently saying that Boeing is tweaking MCAS so it will not continuously try to override the pilot.
MCAS would only keep trying to trim down if the sensor kept feeding it bad AOA data, and the software update is also 1) Ensuring it checks both AOA sensors, and 2) Not taking action if there's a disagreement between the two sensors.
Nevertheless, landing in those conditions would be annoying, but eventually, like we discussed, the pilot should catch on and disable the automated trim.
Why they didn't? If anyone, only the investigators know, at this point.
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