MCAS appears to be doing its job.
Adding a system like the MCAS to an aircraft it no different than adding a stick pusher to an aircraft has has suspect stall recovery?
I think everyone is missing the elephant in the room.
The MCAS is getting all the attention in the media and on this forum when it appears that the input to the MCAS is the suspect.
The MCAS is acting on what information it is fed. Why are we not looking at the source of that information?
i disagree... its a horrible workaround. Where do you stop with this sort of "bodge' ?
Whilst fighter aircraft with inherent instability and full FBW may be acceptable, indeed the norm...
a civil airliner without full FBW requiring a crude interruptiive add-on to a pre-existing flight control system is, to experienced aeronautical engineers, just plain asking for trouble via interpretation, secondary feedback errors or unstable malfunction (as likely in this case)..
'Add Lightness and Simplify' as an underlying philosophy has been binned it seems.