MBA is not the only way to understand anything complex. MBA is a good starting place to understand complex business problems. It won't make you a good engineer

MBA is not the only way to understand anything complex. MBA is a good starting place to understand complex business problems. It won't make you a good engineer. And yet even engineering companies have supply chains to manage, contracts to negotiate, labour force to grow and keep motivated, finance deals to secure, multi-year strategic planning etc. I know for a fact engineers are, by and large, not good at that. Doing an MBA won't magically make you good at that, but at least gives you a head start thinking about those problems and standard industry solutions (if you take more than arrogance and networking out of it). Similar to how an engineering/science degree doesn't tell you how to build a Tesla, but gives you the basics to bootstrap yourself from that point. Even if many a Stanford engineering grad thinks they'll build the next Decacorn because they are so great. I really can't see what's controversial about it.