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Not possible. In an emergency situation that requires rapid descent, the last thing you'd want is to require both pilots to be on the controls.

Anomalous maneuvers are exactly those used to recover from stalls and the like.

Would it be possible to detect stalls and other situations that could override the copilot requirement?

I’m wondering what happens when the M/S death rate is 100x the stall death rate; would engineering controls would be added?

Yeah. You could even automate a response that commands the plane to pitch down so that it never stalls! (Changing flight controls around stall behavior is how Boeing 737 Max planes behaved.

In all seriousness, check out AF447. The plane crashed because the pilots were inputting different commands on the control stick and the plane picked the wrong one

Unfortunately a two man rule would negate the redundancy of having two pilots.

For the majority of charter/private/business flights this wouldn't be feasible as the vast majority of flights tend to be single pilot ops.

Such a requirement could be for large passenger jets only.