Comment by DaiPlusPlus

> It was developed during a time when there was a push to make Software Engineering a licensed profession

Regardless of the merits (or lack thereof) of the original push, I do want to see greater accountability and oversight of safety-critical systems and related, such as IoT systems - the idea of having a licensed/chartered engineer having to sign-off on a project (and so putting their personal professional reputation at stake) is something I support in the aftermath of things like Boeing's MCAS snafus - or the problems with Fujitsu's "Horizon" system - and so on.

I don't want occupational gatekeeping like we see with the AMA and the trope of licensed nail parlours, but we need to learn from how other engineering professions, like civil-engineering and aviation engineering, have all instituted a formal and legally-recognized sign-off process which I feel is sorely lacking in the entire software engineering industry.