You know, someone is doing a hit job on Boeing and call them manufacturing issues, but I wonder if they are more maintenance issues. In the military, we found out you must have good maintenance to keep the birds flying, regardless of who made them. I wonder with all the DEI bullsh*t if it isn’t just lousy mechanics that are poorly trained in many of those issues. For instance, we had a couple of crashes of F-4’s because some embecile had slid his intake cover down into the intake while he was working on the plane. When the pilot kicked in his burners, the engines blew up..just sayin’. As usual, our dishonest reporters really don’t want to know what the issues are.
Your gut is not lying. Most of what I have read leads me to issues that are almost entirely that of the end user. Other than the door plug- not much to pin on old Boeing. I may not be particularly tuned in— but just shy of 50 years in the business might allow for some speculation would it not?