It sounds like instead of putting the sentence in past tense and calling it a revisionist history it sounds like what you are really doing is making a present t

It sounds like instead of putting the sentence in past tense and calling it a revisionist history it sounds like what you are really doing is making a present tense generalization based on years of historical observation: software engineering begins when the code gets too big to see the whole thing on one screen and intuitively understand (aka Analog31's law)