Corporate greed, incompetence, arrogance all caused the Max to be rolled out with a flaw.
And yet you consider that the pilots were of a lesser standard that they couldn't cope with the flaw that ultimately kept the type grounded for years.
However a pilot with a left seat type rating in the 737 should know that when faced with an aircraft that has a trim wheel moving forward that the corrective action is to first use electric trim and if it's still trimming forward to do the Memory Items that you are paid to do.
Absolutely agree but with the caveat that they are flying any other type of 737 and not the Max. If it was that simple then the Max would not have been grounded. MCAS added a level of complexity to your simple runaway stab procedure that would have seen many crashes occur had the flawed design been allowed to continue operating. Line pilots are not test pilots yet thats what Boeing (and the SH 737 jocks that never flew a Max) expected of them.