That's not equivalent. All 737 MAXs have the failed design.
Instead it's like all cars like yours have their stock automated emergency braking system malfunction, didn't illuminate the "check engine" light (that's was the extra 100 bucks), and preventing the brakes from working at all despite you slamming furiously on the pedal. My guess is you'd be a lot angrier about that if you lived.
Isn't it more like the brakes failed to operate and since I didn't pay for the "brake system inoperative" light, I have to figure it out on my own and turn off the primary braking system and apply the emergency brake?
If I have enough experience to know (or happen to have another driver with me that knows) what to do when I press the brake pedal and nothing happens, it's recoverable, otherwise I'm going to keep stomping on the brakes and fighting it without knowing that all I have to do is flip the switch to disable the broken braking system.
So it's not that I had no way to know how to get out of the situation, I didn't have the specific training to recognize it, and if I'd just paid the extra $100 for the light, it would have been much more obvious.
Instead it's like all cars like yours have their stock automated emergency braking system malfunction, didn't illuminate the "check engine" light (that's was the extra 100 bucks), and preventing the brakes from working at all despite you slamming furiously on the pedal. My guess is you'd be a lot angrier about that if you lived.