Also most of what "software engineers" are asked to work on are not engineering problems. There are of course exceptions, but the vast majority of positions lab

Also most of what "software engineers" are asked to work on are not engineering problems. There are of course exceptions, but the vast majority of positions labelled "software engineer" aren't doing anything that would really be called engineering. You are just wiring frameworks together to achieve some goal and reading the documentation to figure out how to make it work.