Yes! All decisions are subjective. I do not think it is exclusive to software engineering, let engineering alone. There are two questions you can ask about any

Yes! All decisions are subjective. I do not think it is exclusive to software engineering, let engineering alone. There are two questions you can ask about any decision. 1. What should I do right now to solve this problem? 2. What will I wish one year from now that I had done to solve this problem? The first one is relatively easy and won't see much debate. It's the second one which is complicated and the reason for debates usually, because you have to predict the future. All bets are off when you try to predict the future, nobody can do it. The best we can do is to let wise old men take the decisions with the hope that they have seen enough little more of the past and that the past sometimes repeats itself.