> software "engineers"
The quotes aren't necessary. They definitely have a few good software engineers, and this issue definitely isn't a technical one.
I also notice the inflation of laissez-faire self titling but it usually doesn't bother me. Just the other day I met a flying machine service worker who proudly introduced himself as a copilot. Our train handling ancestry are locomoting over in their repositories about this!
Edit: it looks like these carcas pits are all calling themselves graves now ;-)