I don’t know about xenophobia, but I do know that this isn’t that hard. An experienced highly trained pilot will turn the switches off, leave them off and hand fly the plane safely in the event of this malfunction. An inexperienced or poorly trained pilot will ..... well you know the rest.

By the way, people have been conditioned to think this MCAS malfunction is the one to be scared of but there are many possible aircraft malfunctions, many of which are way more complex than this one. Training and experience matter for those too.

Boeing’s fix is good because the odds of this particular malfunction happening again are now infinitesimally small, and Boeing can keep selling airplanes around the world to airlines with less training and with less experienced pilots. Win Win.