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The requirement wasn’t ‘redesigning the fuselage’ it was to design an entirely new aircraft.
The present series of 737 is a frankenplane. The powerplant evolution has brought issues at every iteration due to short undercarriage legs designed to accommodate ground clearance for 1960s era low bypass turbojets.
Its avionics evolution has brought issues too: fundamentally a replicated/L-R side config where pilots expected to read the displays & ‘vote’ whether L or R presented the correct information (FBW & other common safety critical systems are triplex).