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> Proper engineering degree teaches about gathering requirement and analyzing the problem space to understand what really needs to be done.

This. I don't even think you have to bring a degree into it, honestly. This is just at the heart of all engineering (software or otherwise).

>And then these people repeat what they have been told are "the best practices".

And then they get jobs which serve to validate their learning paths (maybe not at FAANG), which gives them confidence about what they learned being the right way to do things.

>Proper engineering degree teaches about gathering requirement and analyzing the problem space to understand what really needs to be done.

Well sure, but a lot of non-engineers do that too. Where's the real distinction at?

> Well sure, but a lot of non-engineers do that too. Where's the real distinction at?

A lot of non-lawyers can discuss law principles and explain laws pretty well; but someone who passed the bar I know for a fact are familiar with certain concepts.

Same for engineers.

That's a great point. Good engineering, from a distance, can look awfully like bad engineering from the point of view of a Youtuber or Blogger focused on trends.