Ah yeah, I tend to not think of what we do (or at least, what I do professionally) in the software field as engineering for that reason. What we do seems closer

Ah yeah, I tend to not think of what we do (or at least, what I do professionally) in the software field as engineering for that reason. What we do seems closer conceptually to carpentry rather than engineering. Not that changing things to be more engineering is necessarily better, of course; much of the benefits of software _is_ the flexibility.