Because, the vast majority of software engineering IS "factory" work because its the grunt work of building what should be a well understood system, with well u

Because, the vast majority of software engineering IS "factory" work because its the grunt work of building what should be a well understood system, with well understood tooling. I'm not sure it is, depending on which majority we're talking about. We size in complexity because that's where the time goes, the extra testing, the rework, the long reviews, the risk. If there are cookie cutter lessons to be learned software tends to abstract those problems away to the point they're no longer problems.