To be fair, neither Boeing had any manned flights. I mean, the bulk of engineers and managers currently in Boeing didn't participate in creating the last manned

To be fair, neither Boeing had any manned flights. I mean, the bulk of engineers and managers currently in Boeing didn't participate in creating the last manned spacecraft Boeing worked on, so the company history is rather irrelevant. It's similar to say Russia (actually, USSR) has created, say, TKS (with an arguably better returning manned capsule than Soyuz), Buran (with cutting edge automated capabilities), VEGA (a pretty successful interplanetary robot) therefore Russia has an edge today in these areas.