Ah, now I understand what you are trying to say. Yes, the 'it' in my post is indeed referring to software engineering. It is not so much that they are doing so

Ah, now I understand what you are trying to say. Yes, the 'it' in my post is indeed referring to software engineering. It is not so much that they are doing software engineering wrong due to changing requirements as that the changing requirements make clear that the quality of the engineering is not that great. Another engineer who is working with a higher quality perhaps could have handled the changing and complex requirements without much problems. And in another project the requirements are perhaps quite simple and there is not much requests for changes and both engineers would have done equally well because their skill was not tested much. Of course, there also has to be some limit in changing and complex requirements beyond which it is no longer reasonable for anyone to be able to keep up...... but we do call it SOFTware as opposed to HARDware because it is supposed to be changeable.... and if that which is supposed to be changeable actually is not, there must be something wrong.....