Seconded, thirded and fourthed the pile-on to yanrair's comment. It seems a bit prejudiced considering that it merely dittoes Langewiesche without addressing the many detailed critiques in earlier posts here, or Lemme's surgical strike.
Tomaski has a point. If there is a widening crack in safety standards linked to the growth of low-cost carriers, particularly in nations with problems of corruption in executive government, that's a problem. But it's an independent problem from MCAS, which is specific to the MAX. It may be related to the fact that FBW+automation aircraft are two generations on from the 737, the sole in-production survivor of the manual-reversion era. But MCAS is clearly something else,
Moreover, it's not the first time in aviation history that crew training has been an issue. When we first invented CVRs, we discovered that those ace Western hairy-armed airmen were far from perfect in the way that they managed the crew, and that we had to focus on training crews as crews rather than relying on someone's time in F-106s. Personally I think that a few bullets were dodged in an era when regionals were paying peanuts for right-seaters who had eked out the requisite hours puttering around the circuit in flight-school C150s, domiciling them in Pigs Snout AR and extracting every legal hour from them.