I agree and I'd like to add that in my opinion the airplane now needs to actually be better than its competitors.
If it isn't and there is another accident (big or small, that might or might not involve deaths but which might even slightly be related to MCAS or other systems having similar design flaws) then I think that there would be again another (bigger?) round of repercussions: for the plane itself, for Boeing and for the FAA.
Saying this because I imagine that a negative event might become a final public and/or political confirmation that 1) the FAA & Boing cannot be trusted and that 2) the airplane has just too many flaws that need to be addressed.
Therefore, to avoid this, the plane must be absolutely rock-solid otherwise if anything happens people will immediately ask Boeing and especially FAA "why did you create/approve this thing - are you incompetent and/or stupid and/or unscrupulous?".
A very interesting topic, in my opinion :)
If it goes ahead and gives the green light when the rest of the world isn't sold on it, then we can unambiguously say the entire regulatory institution is irredeemably defective.
At that point the only real fix is an absolutely amazing change in the Executive branch, or a Legislative solution; and I have doubts on the efficacy of the latter, since a regulator is only as good as the people staffing it at the best of times.