I find it hard to believe that there is no indication in the flight deck that the wings have locked into position correctly.
Are you sure? Ie is there a document to back that up?
So did the FAA. The FAA pointed to how many issues there were with landing gear, the importance of a locked indicator, and the SPOF issue with no indication of wings locked. The FAA wording was terse on the issue to say the least.
The FAA was nicer on the crosswind issue, only noting issues with repetitive stressed connections, and asking to provide further calculations on the wind loads used to design the connections.
There was also the question on extending/folding the wings, the associated wind loads, and max wind load for extension/folding cycles.
As with all regulatory promulgation, the pendulum swings back and forth. As we have seen, the pendulum had swung one way too far, unfortunately, the reaction is for the pendulum to swing too far in the other direction.