Nobody knew the 737 MAX was lower quality until it started falling out of the sky.
I think we can agree that an ideal system wouldn't require people to die horrifically in the process of price discovery.
Absolutely, I 100% agree with this. I wasn't arguing that the current system is anything even close to ideal. I was trying to point out that now that we, the public, have paid this horrendous price, we are still not using the information gained. A company that shows that they will put profit above their customers' lives should be abandoned very quickly by its customers. That isn't happening and the fault for that lies with the customers, IMO.