This strikes me as Boeing lobbyists trying to pay people to create doubt. "Maybe it's not the plane, maybe the pilots are inferior to AMERICAN pilots, yeehaw!"
"One of the company’s big selling points with customers had been that pilots certified for an earlier generation of 737 jets only needed a short computer course to brush up their skills for the Max. Those assurances helped make the Max Boeing’s best-selling jetliner." >https://time.com/5762666/boeing-max-faa-messages-clowns/ >https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/business/boeing-737-messa... >https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-max-employee-call...
Boeing is in a really bad position to specify minimum training requirements, since any time they ask for more training requirements of their customers, the customers ask for more money back. So its good that the FAA wants to enhance training requirements.
Based on some of the things that have happened around these two accidents and others recently, I think the increased training should encompass more core skills as well.