Valid point. Root cause attribution is still problematic. My problem with the narrative is two fold: [1] Assigning the "cause" of the 737Max fiasco to culture

Valid point. Root cause attribution is still problematic. My problem with the narrative is two fold: [1] Assigning the "cause" of the 737Max fiasco to culture instead of plain hubris, complacency, etc. [2] Even if [1] is true, attributing the culture shift to the McDoug merger. There is simply no way to test/falsify it. It becomes purely a narrative. Even if McDoug was a financial engineering company first and foremost where is the counterfactual that Boeing would not have arrived here anyways? Are there other great engineering organizations that have arrived in a dysfunctional place without an infusion of alien culture. Look at NASA, what was the financial engineering culture that enforced a launch at any cost mindset? McDoug culture as the culprit in the 737Max disaster is a fanciful narrative, an adult version of the tooth fairy and santa claus. Fanciful narratives are fine but here they are being used to exonerate Boeing by blame shifting.