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Roman engineering is pretty much:
slaps bridge this baby can hold so many people on it. Aint going anywhere.
It was pretty much like that all across the world until the 20th century when we figured out how to make things barely stand up enough, but for cheaper.
Also we expect far more from our bridges and such these days. Roman engineering pretty much just had to worry about people with some horses and carriages and the like. Modern engineering has to account for us driving 2 ton metal boxes on them all day every day forever.
Modern engineering expects infrastructure to last 50 year with bare minimum maintenance, 100 with scheduled remodeling. "Built for eternity" is megalomaniac stuff.
It's also stupid, because there's no way we're going to want that same bridge doing the same thing in the same place in 2125.