IMO that's the difference in calling yourself an engineer. Weighing resources and tradeoffs is engineering 101. Maybe the scope of the problem doesn't require d

IMO that's the difference in calling yourself an engineer. Weighing resources and tradeoffs is engineering 101. Maybe the scope of the problem doesn't require due diligence for budget constraints, and that's fine for those problems. But if you don't have a rough idea of this then you're just not practicing engineering.