I generally agree with you, but we don't have a better term, and it's not completely wrong. I think you have to consider it as something of a homonym. The peopl

I generally agree with you, but we don't have a better term, and it's not completely wrong. I think you have to consider it as something of a homonym. The people who drive trains are also called "engineers", after all, though their job has nothing to do with engineering in either the software-engineering sense or the civil/mechanical/electrical engineering sense.