When did software engineering become software development? When the people making the software stopped needing to think like engineers and started acting like cogs in the machine.
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I believe you've found the dividing line there 👀
It follows the Pareto principle IMO.
20% of devs are able to properly engineer and build 80% of the product, while the others are still needed for low skilled tasks and very often develop crappy stuff. But it mostly works and is enough to move forward.
Engineering perfection does not exist and everything is about tradeoffs and balance between progression vs perfection/refactoring.