This is very close I think. In a way it is a business crisis, in that business directs software engineering not science or academia nor some physical constraint

This is very close I think. In a way it is a business crisis, in that business directs software engineering not science or academia nor some physical constraint. A real estate developer would probably promise you a ten story building made of straw if you seemed willing to pay but a civil engineer will never go make it because they listen to the physics and ethical rules of the trade mostly. For some reason software engineers bend over and say yes sir when faced with a similar situation. Perhaps looking at Boeing the same is becoming true of other engineering specialties as well.