I like your spirit, but there's another conclusion we can draw: very few of us outside of a few special areas in embedded are "engineers". We tinker with bits and bytes to make business systems. Sometimes we bump up against some general engineering fundamentals. But we're just technicians meeting business goals.
Yep, and the same can be said for “real engineers”. Most EEs, civil engineers, etc work on boring stuff as well with negligible risk of doing any harm.
