Originally Posted by
PaxBritannica
Doesn't sound to me as if the MAX problem is a coding issue.
You are right.
Ultimately this is a management decision to accept a solution to the changed flight characteristics problem which had little redundancy built in and very serious consequences if it went wrong close to the ground.
It was further aggravated by another management decision to ‘sell’ the aircraft to customers as an ‘iPad only’ conversion which was almost certainly why MCAS was left out of all training and ops literature.