The goal is to do away with the expense of pilots. The Max was supposed to be a major step toward self-driving planes. The pilot has to execute complicated routines under stress to regain control of the plane. And Boeing didn’t tell the pilots what those steps were. After all, the guy that designed the system knew.
I heard someone saying that Boeing sold the plane as just a better 737, with no special training or simulators needed, when in fact it's like flying a completely different plane.