I understand your point, but let’s play it out logically...
Do we have one FAA engineer for every Boeing engineer to “check their work?”
That was my point. Boeing made a plane with a flaw. They made a flawed system to correct the design flaw (engines too big). They seemingly chose to hide all of this from their consumers and make a safety system an option on the aircraft.
They got the plane approved by the FAA. Was the FAA aware of all of this and did they recognize the problem? I don’t know the answers and it is hard to trust media coverage.
I have seen many stories blaming the FAA for this. If you accept this, what is the solution? More FAA engineers?
A slippery slope FRiend.
“Do we have one FAA engineer for every Boeing engineer to “check their work?””
That’s just a dumb statement. You don’t need 1:1 to check work.
You don’t know engineering or aerospace and you’re way off base on your thought process.