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The 737 should have been replaced after the NG variant but retarded GREEN airline initiatives and Boeing shortsightedness stopped that.
You bring up a good point about airline initiatives and airlines being lazy about wanting to retrain crew to a new airframe. I think airlines are just as much to blame for Boeing's greenlighting the 737 max program. Southwest and Ryanair who fly exclusively 737 probably had major influence to make Boeing build the max so that they wouldn't have to spend time and money to retrain their existing flight crew. I'm sure American also had decent sway since they also have a big 737 fleet, but are now more diversified thanks to the US Airways merger.Not to defend Boeing, but it should be noted that they sold an option to have multiple sensors in the standard setup for MCAS; the planes that went down did NOT have that option.
Also to note is that even though the jet did not require retraining you were still supposed to learn the failure modes of MCAS and how to resolve it. But they should have made it niggerproof, because any system that is not niggerproof will eventually fail catastrophically.
Back in the days during the golden age of aviation, Panam worked with Boeing to make amazing developments like the 747 and a modern ATC system that we still use today. Gone is that kind of innovation and forward thinking in companies. Instead forward thinking now is meeting diversity quotas.