To work from the same passage, >It is true that the F.A.A.’s current delegation rules have been around for more than a decade [...] Yeah, well, great. But airc

To work from the same passage, >It is true that the F.A.A.’s current delegation rules have been around for more than a decade [...] Yeah, well, great. But aircraft development timespans are on the order of ten to fifteen, sometimes twenty years—how many new models (or significant variants) were shipped in that window? IOW, any "ten-year-old track record" in transport category aviation isn't really saying much due to the timescales involved.