In Indonesia this was not even in the manual, and the pilots were never even told MCAS existed.

That’s beside the point. In the story they discuss how airplanes are not intended to require this level of superhuman ability to stay airborne.

You are avoiding that this was a combination of an engineering flaw (reading from a single AOA sensor guiding MCAS, when in reality it should have been redundant) and a regulatory flaw (the role of MCAS was increased despite it being initially regulated as a much milder intervention).