From one of the media reports:
...“If I had been flying a MAX with stickshaker activation at liftoff after the Lion Air accident, shutting off the trim would have been accomplished in a matter of seconds, not minutes,” says one U.S.-based MAX pilot. “I probably would have activated the stabilizer trim cutout switches before the gear was even up. Why that didn’t happen on the Ethiopian flight is a mystery to me.”
So, this MAX pilot’s first response to a stall warning (which could be genuine) is to deactivate the trim. This is a terrible indictment of the awful kludge which the airframe and control systems are on the MAX, that something like an incipient low-level stall comes second in priority to MCAS. The even sillier thing is that if it was a genuine stick shake, you’ve now disabled the system that was going to help you recover...
