(1) The third report says that MCAS only operates in manual flight. The second report appears to confirm that since the pilot says he engaged autopilot sooner than usual to remove the possible MCAS threat.
(2) However, both the first and second reports describe uncommanded pitch down events while in autopilot. That means there is another problem in addition to the MCAS issue, since the latter should not be engaged at all when in autopilot. (If the root problem is an unreliable angle of attack sensor, that would explain both issues, since the AoA sensor would be used by the autopilot as well as by the MCAS.)
(3) We have an aircraft type that is known to have repeated uncommanded pitch down events while in autopilot, and it's still flying. Unfortunately, we already have other aircraft types (from Airbus, not Boeing) that have the same known issue that have not been grounded either. So the system as a whole simply seems to accept the risk of this happening without warning, and hoping that pilots will be able to respond as these pilots did (well done to them) and avoid an actual incident.