The warning light went off three times and they just pushed the “acknowledge” button.
“Yeah, just a false alarm...let’s ignore it. Need to get that sensor adjusted sometime. The next crew can worry about it.”
That same thought process doomed the first Max that crashed.
It was absolute divine intervention that someone was not sitting next to that window/door!!
This is not an area where pilots would get a lot of training. A pilot in this situation might be very much averse to doing anything to CVR because it would look like he was trying to conceal something.
So these folks left the thing alone. It’s what most would do.