You say that, but a huge proportion of working software engineers have almost no idea how to be a professional and do the job correctly. Which I used to be all

You say that, but a huge proportion of working software engineers have almost no idea how to be a professional and do the job correctly. Which I used to be all about, since I cleaned up their messes at inconvenient rates. The problem isn't a shortage of engineers, it's a shortage of quality engineers who don't subtract more value than they produce.