The problem could be that you think you know more than you really do, and aren't willing to listen to the voice of experience. OTOH, there's always a resistance to change, especially if you're working outside established norms.

Absolutely. I have an electronics degree, and I run into developers with CS degrees all the time who are not well read in software engineering. Asking someone what their influences are should probably be a standard interview question.

If the auto market was left wholly to the free market (at least in the USA), we'd still be driving cars that get lousy gas mileage and without many of the safety and environmental controls.

Technical side gets plenty of blame. Where are the software metrics that can give a rough estimate on how much effort a project should take? Not easily available, because most of the software world resists FPA.) Where are the reusable domains? Non-existent, because most of the software developers want to stay at the 3GL level.

CBO estimated ACA would require $10B. Congress approved $1B. http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-not-take-victory-lap-on-obamacare.html?m=1

Err. That's the old Microsoft model; you know, the one the first anti-trust trial was about.

""Educated" but unschooled" chooses to be a "Windows shop". I think that settles the discussion. I always wondered how Windows shops came into existence. "Educated" must preclude logical ability.

In the '90s, EEs at the company I worked for were being "reskilled" to do software development. The positions they occupied weren't being refilled (at least, not in the USA). There has been no surge in demand and a high unemployment rate, so why would students choose to pursue it as a degree?

...how much storage leads need, how much need leads storage, how many slashdotters are hoarders, ???