So how safe is everyone going to feel flying these in the future, us as frequent fliers and the general public

I’ll argue that the max is forever tainted, I won’t fly one anytime soon after they issue an inevitable fix. Not worth the risk in my opinion. I’d bet the press hyping this up (which I agree with for the record) will impact the perception of all fliers. Only question being whether avg joe knows they are on a max or not