It seems people have forgotten that engineering is actually a thing, and there are many aspects of SWE that can be dealt with like a real engineer. As an example, if you have a producer-consumer system, you can model it using a queue, and you can use queue theory to calculate what it would take to achieve certain guarantees. Hard, cold, calculations, like a civil engineer evaluating a structure. I chose to be a SWE, in the real sense of the word, because I believe this kind of approach and expertise in missing from many companies and software projects.