No, Boeing's garbage is a result of shit tier engineering and maybe their own lack of confidence. Southwest had a challenging customer requirement to hit, and B

No, Boeing's garbage is a result of shit tier engineering and maybe their own lack of confidence. Southwest had a challenging customer requirement to hit, and Boeing failed to deliver. Consider if Boeing refused to build the MAX to be type rating identical. Southwest would -have- to buy and retrain. Sure, maybe Southwest would go to Airbus to spite Boeing, but I don't think that would happen if Boeing provided a better product. Airlines typically aren't that petty about these types of strategic decisions. The MCAS fix themselves showed that MCAS wasn't fundamentally a bad idea - just that they had awful implementation (use both AOA sensors? Fail-safe if AOA sensors disagree? Provide proper limits and overrides?). And now after the entire kurfuffle and fixes, 737 MAX still has the same type rating as 737 NG in USA, Canada and Europe (that's just the ones that I checked). MCAS and 737 MAX could have been a home run.