Yeah unfortunately you can chalk this up to the early 90s obsession with libertarianism and anti-regulation. Establishing strong regulatory bodies would be and

Yeah unfortunately you can chalk this up to the early 90s obsession with libertarianism and anti-regulation. Establishing strong regulatory bodies would be and continues to be antithetical to the Silicon Valley Ayn Randian obsessed cult of free marketers. Regulatory bodies in the past were setup ultimately by government legislation (though typically run arms-length or fully independently thereafter), and until government starts actually taking these things seriously no software developer will ever be an "engineer" unless there are actual licensing and standards by authoritative bodies.