.... and also assuming that there are no other inherent problems in the MAX that have yet to surface.

An assumption which, prior to the MCAS problems arising, would have been eminently easy to make for a new Boeing plane .... but given that the MCAS issue slipped through, then my confidence that there are no other latent design flaws in the MAX has diminished somewhat of late.

Keep in mind that the MCAS was a terrible software implementation .... but the root issue of the two crashes appears to have been that the AOA sensor failed (and then the MCAS reacted badly to it). Sure, it's a poor design to rely on only one sensor in the first place, but why are two brand new planes both having a failed sensor in the first place? A sensor that was replaced at least once for the Indonesian plane, so it's unlikely to be the actual sensor ... so is there a latent problem with the wiring or system that receives the sensor data? I dunno, but if true then that's two pretty fundamental issues with the MAX .... are you really confident that those are the only two problems that the plane has?

I'm not.