Jumbomax11 and fdf,
Thank you for your posts, which reflect sound insight and airmanship.
Many other posts here, from people who according to their published pedigree, should really know better and be a bit less affirmative in their appreciation of the deceased crews. Especially since we don't know yet what exactly happened in the cockpits.
So many crystall ball quarterbacks, even though we still don't know exactly what this MCAS function could actually do.
And maybe Boeing didn't quite know either before the crashes.
300+ flight test hours seems quite a long time to correct a simple "it's just the pilots" event. Things might not be so straightforward after all...