Originally Posted by
Knotcher
The reason the 737 cockpit looks like it does is mostly due to the FAA, not Boeing. The FAA makes it so onerous to change anything due to training and certification requirements that is just is not feasible for airlines or Boeing. The FAA created this problem themselves.
Boeing created this problem for themselves. Instead of creating a long overdue narrowbody from a clean sheet, they stretched the 737 yet again and are spending more time and losing more money by engineering work-arounds to get it working than it would have cost in R&D for a whole new jet.