Principled engineering should be taken for granted. You can exercise it whether you are dealing with good taste or bad taste. The reverse is not true; you cann

Principled engineering should be taken for granted. You can exercise it whether you are dealing with good taste or bad taste. The reverse is not true; you cannot really exercise good taste whether you have good engineering or shitty engineering. Bad taste can hamper engineering but not make it impossible; bad engineering renders taste moot. Engineering serves taste, mainly. Consider that something well-engineered can be entirely unnecessary and unwelcome.