That's interesting, as my experience was the inverse of this; I started in the humanities and later became a software engineer. My background makes my complaint

That's interesting, as my experience was the inverse of this; I started in the humanities and later became a software engineer. My background makes my complaint slightly different: it is common in postmodern thought to critique essentialism, and although these criticisms can have a lot of merit, postmodern thinkers can get very meta in their arguments. To the point where even the texts themselves evade essentialism. The trouble with this is that, for better or worse, we typically try to get at the essence of things in the learning process, i.e. we search for fundamental patterns in the domain we're learning. So at the same time that postmodern thinkers are critiquing essentialist assumptions that we may hold, they are also using the text itself to drive this point home. But for someone new to this stuff, it makes it very hard to learn. I believe that there is value in these ideas, but they need to be made more accessible if they're to become popular outside of academia. The tech industry would benefit from exposure to other domains like this; although engineering holds a lot of power afforded to it by economics, I've noticed a lot of developers fall into the notion that their domain is the one to rule them all, and that it is enough to understand the world in it's relation to software alone.