Those engineering problems are trivial compared to many real problems. Turning out all those engineers to work on say cancer wouldn't necessarily result in any

Those engineering problems are trivial compared to many real problems. Turning out all those engineers to work on say cancer wouldn't necessarily result in any new breakthroughs . Case in point: all the brilliant software engineers who thought they could solve Covid (https://www.protocol.com/Newsletters/pipeline/very-venture-capital-approach-to-covid https://www.protocol.com/Newsletters/pipeline/very-venture-c...) only to find themselves out of their depth. The software engineering approach doesn't translate to all things and can even be harmful in some fields (cough Theranos). Physicists are another group that tend to have this conceit -i.e if they weren't so busy solving physics problems they would solve the economy and world peace