Given that the engines were moved forward changing the Centre of Mass I would expect an Aerospace Engineer to be aware and concerned that this is an issue that

Given that the engines were moved forward changing the Centre of Mass I would expect an Aerospace Engineer to be aware and concerned that this is an issue that would require an automated intervention to correct for that, and that would need to be extremely robust. In hindsight that’s easy for me to say, and the FAA had gone to relying on Boeing engineers, but as mentioned if there was huge pressure for Boeing to compete things could get overlooked.