> ...why these design trade-offs were made. While your line of reasoning is sound in most scenarios, in this case, the why is pretty obviously written on the w

> ...why these design trade-offs were made. While your line of reasoning is sound in most scenarios, in this case, the why is pretty obviously written on the wall. The overriding reason why this hacky-hack software solution was slapped into the airframe was to keep from having to reclass the plane following the addition of too-large engines. Your reasons listed played into the design decisions that became MCAS, but the underlying reason as to why any of this nonsense was needed in the first place is because non-engineers forced a shitty situation on the people who actually implement these airframes. Hacker News is frequented by engineers from multiple disciplines, including software engineering, and many of those engineers know the kinds of terrible design decisions forced by management that come about to make a quick buck. People are pissed about it due to this fact, and rightly so.