Originally Posted by
mustafagander
Hoo boy Dave. Stop being intentionally obtuse.
Probably in our first year Aerodynamics lectures we learnt that at high angles of attack aircraft mush along climbing, if at all, nowhere near the attitude at which the fuselage currently presents. This means that strakes on the lower fuselage, best as close as possible to the empenage for maximum leverage, generate a significant nose down force with no crew action and no failure modes. Hence a huge assist to unstall. Details I can't be bothered to find - after 50 years I've likely lost the paperwork. It is not difficult to design a system like this to counter the nacelle lift afflicting the B737 Max.
Boeing
did look at various aerodynamic mods to solve the high AOA issues - however none provided an adequate solution (and believe it or not, Boeing does have some pretty sharp aero types
). OTOH, MCAS did exactly what was needed (at least when it worked as intended).
This was all discussed in some detail in at least one of the many MCAS threads, if you want to look through a few thousand posts to find it...