Boeing's response to many things is the NG's safety record.
They fail to acknowledge the MAX's extremely poor safety record.
The MAX is not an NG and it should be called out as that - The NG has proven with 205 million flying hours a safe aircraft for low trained crews all over the world.
The MAX has proven it is not as safe as the NG for the same crews.
What has happened to that fix that was ready many months ago? Why not release any details including bare airframe flight data? How does the new data compare of the two FC's work?
Should the MAX be a 3 crew aircraft? that is the only MCAS event that was successful!
Are the NG and MAX actual manual trim wheel forces the same or is the MAX even harder to move as the aircraft moves out of trim?
Mid Feb now and no new leaked bare airframe data leaked from all the persons and regulators involved suggests that is still Boeing's secret data. I expect we will get a few more bombshells between now and mid-year.
I think this saga has a lot longer to run.