A retired 737 pilot explained it to me in one sentence.
“Score for the computer is two, score for pilots is zero.”
I also stated way back then that evidence would be found within Boeing itself that engineers would have raised this concern to management. (Single point of failure in this configuration), so claims of executive/management ignorance would not hold up.
This too has since been proven as well.
They KNEW.. someone, and most likely several someone’s at Boeing willfully and deliberately made the decision to put this plane in this configuration in the air with the public on board. At the very least those individuals should be facing direct charges personally. Yet to date it appears nothing will be done.