Theres a wide wide range of problems with the whole max issue. Boeings hand in this is pretty clear and Boeing knows that. They conspired to hide things. The FAA is a dumbass group yes, but you have to appreciate even if the FAA had made better choices Boeing bullied engineers that had valid safety concerns. Boeing hid things from the FAA, from customers, and also the pilots.
What Boeing did was criminal. Should the FAA sue itself? Sure. But we're already paying the military wing of boeing extra to pay for the fines on the civilian wing of boeing.
The irony is that the thing Boeing was hiding was placed there -hidden- to prevent Boeing from incurring liability should the lame-ass pilots of Chitty-Airlines, Inc. end up not knowing how to to identify and/or recover from a stall. In other words, MCAS was supposed to be an antidote to a lack of proper pilot training. Instead, Boeing's chitty-ass system ended up killing those lame-ass pilots. The really Darwinianally unfair thing is, the combo of chitty system and chitty pilots ended up killing hundreds of innocent Pax.
Boeing knew full well how bad these pilots were, but still, Boeing really, really wanted to sell airplanes to their companies.
The fact that MCAS was a half-ass, half-baked system?? Yeah,
that clearly was Be-owing's fault.