MCAS: Stick-force corrector or anti-stall device?
We are constantly reminded that MCAS is not an anti-stall device. It was introduced solely to cause the forces pilots experience from the yoke are more intuitive. So we are told.
But, is it possible that MCAS really is, and really is required, as an anti-stall device? I have not heard of anyone flying the MAX right up to stall other than Boeing test pilots, so all the information about what happens near that cliff has passed through Boeing management. Perhaps passing off MCAS as a minor change was intended to divert attention away from a more serious problem.