Originally Posted by
ST Dog
Engineers seldom get free reign on design. They deal with design constraints set by company policies and marketing.
That's just life as an engineer, especially at a large company.
Yes, I know -- from experience. OTOH, some companies (sometimes) understand when decisions
really should be engineering-driven. Not least because, in the longer term, profits, and more, may depend upon doing that way. The MAX appears to be an example of a failure to understand that.