> This is a prime example of why programmers are not seriously considered engineers.

The civil engineer who builds a great suspension bridge probably looks down on the one who builds a bridge over a irrigation ditch in a rural county using a big metal pipe covered with dirt.

Much like you may look down on train builders who make the novelty trains for kids parks.

Software engineering happens to be useful everywhere and most stuff in life is low stakes and the economics do not exist to make it perfect.

However, in aerospace, banking, and other high stakes industries software engineering projects are met with the rigor that is called for.