I think engineering disciplines broadly have comparable flexibility to software. Looking to electrical engineering, circuit design is mostly arbitrary once you'

I think engineering disciplines broadly have comparable flexibility to software. Looking to electrical engineering, circuit design is mostly arbitrary once you're within certain physical bounds (such as controlling for noise in a high speed circuit). Regardless of discipline, there seems to be infinity^12 ways to skin their particular cats. Older disciplines just have more "turn clockwise" assumptions built into the mountain that makes their foundation.