> This implies that you can look back at a product with all its nuance and say "that was done right" or "that was done wrong". Most of the time it is ambiguous

> This implies that you can look back at a product with all its nuance and say "that was done right" or "that was done wrong". Most of the time it is ambiguous as far as if the chosen approach was the right one It is often ambiguous when making the decision but a good engineer should absolutely be able to determine what were right and wrong decisions with hindsight. Yes, even with the benefit of hindsight there may be some ambiguity, but let's be real If you are a leading engineer and you cannot do a postmortem on a project to determine what decisions were likely good and what ones were likely bad, then you shouldn't be a leading engineer