Originally Posted by MEL221001

My thoughts on it are that flight crews and airlines should have been told by the manufacturer that the system is on the aircraft and given all available information on MCAS and how to disable it if needed. Even if this lead to what Boeing referred to as information overload for crews or what Boeings worst fear was (a new type rating for the aircraft), at least its better than having 2 airframes in the ground and the rest of the fleet grounded worldwide.