I feel like this is a bit of a dramatization - but most 'real' engineers work on on physical products with lead times and manufacturing costs. You could design

I feel like this is a bit of a dramatization - but most 'real' engineers work on on physical products with lead times and manufacturing costs. You could design, manufacture, and ship thousands of gadgets which turn out to be scarp, because someone forgot to place a pull-up resistor for the reset pin leaving the devices unable to boot up (definitely not a real example :) ) You can make costly mistakes with software too, but in old engineering it's the norm not the exception.