I think Boeing is just trying desperately to avoid having to admit that they’ve failed again. They’re also trying to avoid the embarrassment that having SpaceX rescue their astronauts would bring. But both of those outcomes are as inevitable as the sun rising every 90 minutes while on orbit (see what I did there?).
However, I’ve been wondering for a while now how SpaceX will be able to accommodate two astronauts who have incompatible spacesuits and for whom custom seats don’t exist in the Dragon. Seats are molded to the bodies of individual astronauts, both for comfort and safety. I suppose they can get around that one by installing seats that are as close to their known body dimensions as possible. As far as I know, forces during reentry in Dragon max out around 4 Gs, which would be easily tolerable even if the seat isn’t perfectly fitted. However, I don’t know if they can get around the need to have the spacesuits custom fitted. Maybe it doesn’t matter as much if they’re not going to be moving around much in them, just riding down, but I wonder about things like the suit’s ability to protect them in an emergency from thermal or pressure changes if its fit is only a rough approximation.
“but I wonder about things like the suit’s ability to protect them in an emergency from thermal or pressure changes if its fit is only a rough approximation.”
Space is dangerous even if everything goes perfectly.
Boeing has proved they have no business operating in that kind of zero defect environment.