> Given that outcome, I (from the peanuts gallery) would design the aircraft to handle in some ideal way using MCAS-like automation to fix any deviation from that ideal, from the beginning. Of course, that's starting to head down the road of a more-Airbus-like design.

The 787 and 777 are already purely fly by wire. Their entire feel is made up.

Boeing simply has a different design philosophy on how much a pilot should feel like they are in command vs steering a system.