I think it's great fun to pick on engineers, and I used to be one. I let my Professional Engineer license expire, so I'm a farmer now.
You may as well pick on them, they can't fight back. Each of them thought they were doing what they could under the circumstances. I always enjoyed picking on them when they could fight back. After they were proven wrong, they would apologize.
The marginal engineers do try to hide behind their education. That infuriates people who know better but still have to follow the engineer's lead. However, remember there are marginal performers in every craft. And we could not get along without them, there would not be enough help to do the jobs. For instance, not all truck drivers know how to do their job, but they are on the road with the rest of us.
So if you're an engineer, let the guys have their fun. We've all seen things that were poorly engineered, sometimes those things break and kill people. Whether we're engineers or not, we've all seen things screwed up by forces beyond our control. As was stated earlier, engineers usually don't get to address the errors until it is widely advertised while lots of real people get to fix their screwups privately.
Engineers get paid well to do what they do so they can take a little heat.
I quit worrying about future engineers when I see what SpaceX, Google, and many other new companies are doing.
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