Yes, and that's normal, and the things I mentioned working engineers often have opinions about and some are even well informed, but traditionally there'd be a skew of opinions and different levels of strength of those held. You could inform yourself about those options, test them, and over time become well informed yourself.

That's not really possible with frontier models changing every 3-6 months, just like javascript frameworks there's not enough time to learn the ins and outs and they mostly expose the same interface, so unless you have rigorous evals you are working on vibes, and the amount of meetings I have had in the last 3 years of engineers confidently reporting on their vibes is SO TIRING.