Yes, except many of the new safety features were useless here, because vehicles are mostly not designed for this scenario.
The main safety features only work as designed, if you hit something with your bumper.
Most people panic in this satiation, and stand on the brake pedal causing the front suspension to dive. If you have a lot of speed, it can really cause a big drop in the front suspension. If your front end dives low enough to go under the bumper of the vehicle you are hitting, you get a lot more damage. This is because, you are hitting the hardest part of their vehicle, with the softest part of your vehicle.
The trick is to let off the brake pedal at the last second, just as you should do, if you are going to hit a chuck hole, this will allow the front suspension to recover. And the struts to refill. In this case it would have allowed the main safety features, i.e. energy absorbers, and crumple zones, to reduce the damage, and potential for injuries.
Yes, some sophisticated vehicles have computer systems that can help keep the front end from diving.
Survival here had a lot more to do with luck.