Kind of a bummer that 95% of software engineering is dedicated to creating a padded cell to make sure no one makes a whoopsie instead of doing creative and interesting things.
s/software engineering/running a business.
I'd much prefer that the people building the bridges and planes I use, or the staff at the hospital I visit, have procedures in place to prevent them from "making a whoopsie" than the space to be creative or interesting. Even if they enjoy their job less.
The good news with software engineering is that unlike building a plane or running a hospital, nobody is stopping you from making your own projects and being creative and interesting as you want!
I do agree our profession grapples with complexity in bad ways though.
Programming languages are what you build creative and interesting things from, building in safety into your tools is a good thing.
I wouldn’t want a nail gun that shoots in the wrong direction when you apply the incorrect amount of pressure. Software engineering over indexes on an obsession with the tools themselves over the things you make with them.