Good example of why "engineering" only works as a loose metaphor and isn't meaningfully similar enough with software for direct comparisons.

Building things with matter needs to adhere to fixed principles corresponding to hard laws of physics. Working with bits is a different ballgame. It's creativity, psychology, improvisation. It's gardening.

Physics matters, but any engineering discipline dictates principles and practices beyond merely what is demanded by physics.

> It's gardening.

Let a thousand bad analogies bloom!