Lots of "professional" cartels in Canada are granted power. We still call our engineers in Canada software engineers. No one has expressed concern so far.
I've never been able to use the phrase "software engineer", despite having 20+ years of software experience because I was raised to believe that Engineers have silver rings, engineering degrees and professional standing.
Here in Texas, we had a licensure board for Software Engineering for a minute, though it was eventually killed by our Sunset Commission, because almost no one was interested in it (sadly).
The article is an expression of concern. It also cites three court cases to show that it matters.