Engineers are good at building bridges, and artists are good at making paintings. That doesnt mean it is a good idea to have the engineers paint paintings.
Leaving aside the four splits, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Electronic with the obvious corollary that few Engineers build bridges, I'm reminded of my first student Engineering project back in 1983 (ish).
Building a sheep shearing robot - hardware and software, with no pre existing libraries of control software, etc.
https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/clippings/how-nece...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/robotica/article/abs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAh2zv7TMM
A great chunk of software was written by Peter Kovesi .. a mechanical engineer still working on computer vision projects today: https://peterkovesi.com/projects/
You sound more than a little ignorant of the breadth and depth of talent in the world and more than a little inclined to believe that people can be boxed up and ring fenced by your particular world view.
No sheep were harmed in the making of this robot. Sheep literally fell asleep when secured.
Art is for everyone. Painting is a special form of art. Math makes for beautiful art, so download LibreCAD and free your mind.
(Speaking as an ex. IT guy, ex. CNC machinist who is attending art school at the age of 40 as a form of rehab.)
Somehow the people who made the hardware are engineers, but the people who made the software aren't engineers.
It just has to do with the subject matter and definition of Engineer. The clearest delineation is that an Engineers work is the application the laws of physics. Software developers are more akin to Scientists than Engineers. They work in the arrangement of logic and the semantic relation of abstractions.
That is to say, Engineers work within a framework of rules, and Computer scientists construct frameworks of rules.
If software techies/engineers wish to push back, may I suggest: Tay bridge, Tacoma Narrows, Millennium bridge and concrete cancer. Comet commercial jet airliners and the many snags that lead to fillets and rounded corners on ships int al. Do we count Titanic as "user error" or inappropriate expectations exceeded?
