The problem is that there is ample press and experts who have scrutinized the 737-MAX issues for over 8 months now - there were multiple systematic/organizational issues and oversights all over the place - that should be duly criticized and it was, but let's learn about this other issue in a completely different division (Space), take hints and jump to conclusions about their incompetence. This is immature, condescending and disrespectful of the engineers that worked on making this happen.

SHIT happens in space flight all the time. The rate at which shit happens in space is on a few orders of magnitude different than shit that happens in commercial aerospace. Ask how many times SpaceX failed to do what they do today and it will fail more times in future, no doubt.

I also understand the company culture point - yea, company culture probably isnt the best at Boeing but they've done many many things right in past decades. They're a huge company with a lot of talented engineers (and a lot of bozos). Their CEO is a complete asshat and I am sure people inside Boeing talk about it.

I just think that there is unnecessary scrunity without data to say definitively what happened.

I don't jump to conclusions about "incompetent engineers" in either case, so it doesn't affect my opinion of the similarity.