I think that’s part of it. I think the other half of the equation is the engineer isn’t planning to work for any company long enough to need to deal with the re

I think that’s part of it. I think the other half of the equation is the engineer isn’t planning to work for any company long enough to need to deal with the results of what might happen in the future. If they have spent their whole career job hopping, they may have never learned the hard lessons from some decisions they’ve made. They think they did the right thing, but never saw the result, so they keep repeating the same mistakes. This is my general theory, as someone with nearly 20 years at the same company, who has seen many people come and go who repeat the same mistakes again and again. They often have a certain arrogance that comes from never having dealt with their own failings. Or it may be false bravado to hide their fear; I’ve seen that one too. I spent a good 12 years rolling with the punches and adopting every change that came my way, wondering why some others were resistant to change. Now I get it. While I think we do still need to grow and evolve, the change for the sake of change gets old. This is especially true when the change ignores the underlying root problems and bakes them into the new systems. If we aren’t going to solve the hard problems, what’s the point? I want to actually fix the stuff, not just add yet another coat of lipstick on the pig.