Loose screws? A wheel coming off of a plane on the runway?

People come out of the woodwork to criticize Boeing. The most recent on the front page today from United's CEO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106480

United, however, has been dealing with another story recently as well...

https://apnews.com/article/ntsb-investigation-united-airlines-flight-hawaii-7744614cd1202c938b550ea2cea4bafb

And it seems like the CEO jumping in is probably more of an attention shift than anything else.

Am I the only person seeing all of this Boeing news and thinking that it's unrealistic for a company this big, with this many highly trained people who's been making planes for this long...to suddenly turn into a stumbling buffoon of a company?

It just doesn't seem plausible.