The 737 Max is not competitive with the A320 NEO series.
Boeing is focused on wideboy planes for the future, not single aisle aircraft.
Boeing has ceded the single-aisle market to Airbus.
“The 737 Max is not competitive with the A320 NEO series.”
Apparently so, but why? Why didn’t Boeing have the resources available to design a new plane that could compete with the NEO? How is Boeing spending their money compared to Airbus? For example, does Europe have a bunch of substandard universities graduating people with near-useless STEM degrees, as the US does, particularly in the South...people that large companies are then forced to hire, due to government requirements?
You beat up a horse enough, you eventually cannot ride it, or something like that.