You mean that the engineers quietly analyzed the test flight data and decided to increase the parameters on their own, so that the flight data show similarity between a MAX and a NG ?

I find it so huge that it is hard to believe. Unless they took SW guys with no clue about how to do their jobs, like fresh graduate with no mentoring, or even outsourced to a SW shop ? I would never take responsability of such a change without even talking to the pilots about it.

It is hundred timed worse than the VW engineers who cheated the homologation test.