It’s great knowing our grandparents were designing these things before we were born.
The only thing that seems to be really changing is the technological substrate underneath. It leads me to wonder if manufacturing ability and materials engineering are really what’s driving higher order improvements in technology, not “algorithms” so to speak. Electrical and mechanical engineers of olde otherwise seem to be no less capable of designing complex systems than software engineers.
Given the way most modern software is made, refering to the makers as "software engineers" is a bit of an exaggeration. If you could visualize the average software project, a Rube Goldberg machine consisting of cogs, wheels, relays and bricks-and-pipes, all held together with duct tape.