While the initial concept was fine, when it came down to doing the detailed design of systems etc the DC-10 seems very much to have been done by the B-team.
Come the MD-11 and this lot seem to have made their way up into the top jobs ......
Long Beach was unfortunately always like this after Donald Douglas' departure. As the old saying goes :
"The best aircraft would be one designed by Lockheed, built by Boeing, and with Sales & Marketing by Mc DD"