At my age I doubt I will ever enter an aircraft so I am free to consider that Boeing should be stopped from making aircraft for civilian use. The iron age reached its pinnacle with the stainless steels designed by a man called Harry Brearley https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/burngreave-voices/BrearleyH.html
Since then we entered more exotic material ages from Aluminium and Magnesium alloys to carbon fibre. It was during this period the school of hard knocks was removed and WW1 called on the civilian population to employ women in high tech platforms. This led from lions led by donkeys to monkeys managed by clowns in just over a century.
And while they are using new materials the new materials have still to stand the test of time, something I would rather do on the ground than experiment with in the air or at sea. Its a feat of endurance enhanced with throw away cheapoes from cjina.
