It's not a bad question to ask. Structural engineering as a profession has also existed much, much longer than software development and with that comes new less

It's not a bad question to ask. Structural engineering as a profession has also existed much, much longer than software development and with that comes new lessons of doing things better - perhaps at the expense of forgetting some of those problems have already been solved elsewhere. It's as if our industry has this undercurrent of desire to reinvent the wheel instead of learning from what history is so good at teaching (providing context). No idea how on the mark I am about this.