So much time is wasted in our field, reinventing the wheel, adopting ill suited architectures and abstractions, not seeing problems in advance, misunderstanding

So much time is wasted in our field, reinventing the wheel, adopting ill suited architectures and abstractions, not seeing problems in advance, misunderstanding the requirements. An experienced engineer, who can prevent the above is worth their weight in gold. Because ultimately, the fundamentals of software engineering haven't changed for decades, like abstraction, modularization etc