Software is all about trade offs. I would actually recommend you the book Software Engineer at Google since you mentioned them so many times: https://www.amazon

Software is all about trade offs. I would actually recommend you the book Software Engineer at Google since you mentioned them so many times: https://www.amazon.ca/Software-Engineering-Google-Lessons-Programming/dp/1492082791 https://www.amazon.ca/Software-Engineering-Google-Lessons-Pr... The first chapter is all about that and how software engineer isn't programming. You seem to think as programming and I believe you're missing the bigger picture.