You posted after I started writing my earlier reply.
I sympathize with you. Boeing has been historically a great American company and the best plane maker since the end of the Second World War.
I'm sure there are still a lot of good people there. But I can't say the same for the current leadership.
They were dragged kicking and screaming to build the 'Dreamliner'.
Their plan was to just be 'The Integration Company', not actually to build stuff. Of course, the thing they are particularly bad at is integration and system engineering because now the weasel management holds complete sway over the engineers.
They don't believe in engineers--just 'managing' a product into existence.
"But I can't say the same for the current leadership."
I will agree with Cogadh na Sith on one thing, our focus on integration over creation has been a problem, and we've been trying to get reality pushed up the chain... but you know how easy it is to push a chain, right? ;(