>>and admit that many, many coding positions are API gluing and tinkering with libraries to fulfill business requirements, and not actually about engineering S

>>and admit that many, many coding positions are API gluing and tinkering with libraries to fulfill business requirements, and not actually about engineering Sounds like the True Scotsman Fallacy. Why isn't tinkering with libraries and glueing code "actual engineering"? Do you think engineers of other professions invent everything from scratch? Or are they given a set of tools, materials and requirements and figure out how to accomplish the task?