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According to this article, the door plugs are only opened if there's a "rigging issue"...whatever that might be. https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/undamaged-plug-exit-on-alaska-max-9-had-fasteners-tightened-during-assembly/

FAA says they are going to revoke some delegated inspection authorities... https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-increasing-oversight-boeing-production-and-manufacturing

At one of the recent NTSB briefings, Homendy made it pretty clear they are very unhappy with the CVR erasure. She took the time to urge the FAA to require update of CVRs in current commercial aircraft to have 25 hours of continuous memory. She said there's currently an FAA NPR for new a/c to...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ntsb-boeing-incident-oregon-1.7078180

See Juan Browne's update on this. He links to a video on utoob "The Boeing 737 Technical Channel" which provides a very detailed description of the plug door installation there.

The COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into the works as well.

FWIW, here's a photo of a door being inspected at United Airlines, with an inset showing the same area where the failed door was.

The NTSB final is out. Search CAROL for N112TW to find it. Turns out there was a go-pro in the cockpit and NTSB has a complete record of the flight. If you look at the docket (linked in the final PDF), there's a link to a separate PDF analyzing the go-pro recording.

This is listed on ASN now, under incident number 349619, and that is the aircraft in question, N4023B.