alt Hacker NewsTo your larger point I don't think engineering logic is necessarily superior to financial logic, or manager logic. The problem is that because of the way we have built our society, engineering (and all other fields) must comply with and be subservient to bureaucrat and lawyer logic. The legal defense against an engineering failure is not to prove that your overall failure rate is low and within acceptable limits, but rather to come up with as long a list as possible of safety measures and policies that you followed without any regard to whether they actually have any effect at all.
What you are saying is that lawyers sometimes respond to problems by just throwing meaningless solutions at it. Sure, but every other profession sometimes does the same; see the example in my prior-prior comment.
It's the person, not the profession. There are good, bad, incompetent, committed, etc. in every profession - heck, in every person, to varying degrees.