I would agree but I would also say that software systems are way way more complex than any other engineered systems. How? Well consider the number of factors th

I would agree but I would also say that software systems are way way more complex than any other engineered systems. How? Well consider the number of factors that a engineer has to consider while designing the system. These factors could all be accounted before the system design is started and the specific engineering discipline is all about knowledge of these factors and how to handle/control them. On the software systems side, there is no way in the hell that you could consider all the factors that would influence the system let alone come up with strategies to control and handle them. So yes, we should not call ourselves engineers, rather we need some other title which is about handling complexity levels of systems like software.