Are you sure? Pretty much every book and methodology over the past two decades has focused on how software engineering needs to "grow up" and be more like other production industries. A cornerstone in the latest fad, "new agile" with books like the Phoenix Project, is how the software delivery process should learn from lean production industries.
This is very popular with managers and funders who desperately want the predictability. Those pressures aren't going to go away. Doesn't mean it can be made to fit in that box, though.
