I don't take 'software eating the world' as positive. Finance has eaten the world as well, does that sound so good? The only reason it has a positive connotatio

I don't take 'software eating the world' as positive. Finance has eaten the world as well, does that sound so good? The only reason it has a positive connotation is because the people quoting it tend to profit from it. If we took software engineering seriously overall we'd still have all the things where that's already the case. Compilers, machinery, infrastructure and so on. Sure we maybe would only have two delivery platforms that don't lose your data instead of 50 that do, but is that so bad? For many years now every time people discuss raising standards in the industry there's always the line of argument that we lose a whole bunch stuff. To me it sounds like arguing that banning people from pouring lead into the river loses you a bunch of companies. Sure, but good riddance.