I don't think we are.
I think the problem the distinction between "legitimate engineering practices" and "legitimate software engineering practices."
The point that we're raising here is that most (maybe very large chunks) of the software engineering follow bad engineering practices, which have been normalized in the software industry. The root cause is, of course, that real engineers have liability and that shifts organizational risk tolerance.
"If you don't know how it works or it's wrong sometimes" is bad engineering.
For example, go try to talk to and mechanical engineer or electrical engineer into including something they don't understand or that could have, say, a 20% error rate into their designs.
