OAG,
If you take a peek back at the locked thread on the ET accident, I mentioned that if MCAS was described as an "anti-stall" device, then the MAX would have to have a new type certificate as it differed from the previous 737 variants.
Yup. I remember. Probably most here who were raised in the Anglophone world remember this, from Walter Scott's poem, "Marmion" (even if some of us didn't know the origin):
"Oh! What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive"