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You forget, business majors are often the ones who pay to develop things and they don't always think about things or listen when engineers talk to them.
I'm an engineer, and I've never hade the people paying me not listen to me. Why wouldn't they, they paid for it? It is up to me to give valid information for making the choice.
Chemical engineer. If they don't listen to me, people might get hurt, the environment might get damaged or something might explode. Which can be said for any engineering field (including software) in some degree, but chemical industries have learnt the hard way that they should listen to the engineers, while chemical engineers have learnt they should document everything to keep the business majors accountable.
I'm envious. I'm an industrial engineer and I've had employers brush off my recommendations from "here's a mathematical model showing how your proposed idea doesn't work, and the experiments we did of it were a disaster" to "hey, this is pretty heavy, we're going to need tool assisted lifting"
When you work in product development, it happens ALLLLLLLLL the time. The FAFO is nice when it inevitably backfires on them but its still REALLY frustrating.