Oh, like the lousy engineers at SpaceX? Or the lousy engineers that have developed computers and digital communications? Engineers come in all stripes and colors. Some are lousy and others are first-rate. They can do no more than their employer's vision can permit. That is just a fact of life. The Boeing Company (for example) used to be a paragon of engineering excellence---but once the merger happened and the McDonnell management ruled the roost, it has been sliding downhill ever since.