"just to move the blame away from the company"
The company accepted full blame. What Boeing doesn't want is to have 20,000 relatives of relatives of relatives coming up with reasons they should have been considered and dragging the proceeding out for a decade.
"the deliberate deceit after Lion Air"
Source for that?
How does it compare with "They followed the procedure exactly" a year before issuing a report that showed they did not follow even a single step (because steps are order dependent) correctly?
This is what runaway stabilizer presents as on the Classic - prior to the NG - prior to the MAX - that's how old this procedure is and how training is supposed to be. Note the startling warning horn.