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Bend alot
My understanding is MCAS is only required for compliance of a regulation, and it can not be compliant due to lift from the engine cowlings during certain stages of flight without MCAS.
So the regulations could be looked at to see if still relevant, the engine cowlings could be modified or adjusted so lift is not happening in that stage of flight or the AOA interface be modified.
A software patch alone will not pass the pub test.
The trouble, for Boeing, with that is that it may well cause an increase in drag, as would rear fuselage strakes.
Maybe minor, maybe not so.