Please read my post. I am not a defender of Boeing at all. I have personal experience of Boeing personnel attempting to blame the pilots. You can be assured those were robustly rebutted. The pilots were hapless scapegoats at the end of a very large slice of Swiss cheese. I also believe that the Max was a stretch too far for the 737 series. I have flown many variants from the -200 up to the -800 plus instructed / examined on most. If Boeing had asked me prior to developing the Max (a highly unlikely scenario) I would have said stop it here at the NG. I think that Boeing had lost its moral compass and they have a responsibility to show humility and contrition for the subsequent disasters.