Yes?

They’re saying that if there aren’t significant consequences for the C suite in this case, they’ll pick cost over safety again in the future.

I think it's worse than picking cost over safety. What Boeing did was knowingly push a bad position. They knew they were in the hole with the pilot training for the Max, they knew they had screwed up. Regardless of that, they kept pushing the line that it wasn't their fault right up until that became untenable. The issue here is a corporate culture that ignored red flags, that played games with the regulator and decided that they would gamble peoples lives and the entire company reputation (including all their employees) on a cost cutting, corrupt means of beating Airbus. The entire c-suite should be headed for orange jumpsuit land.