LOL -- I agree wtih you
Well yes but I am both and believe that good engineering necessarily has a healthy respect for economics.
Reminds me of a lengthy article on EMP (electomagnetic pulse) warfare and the corresponding vulnerability of the electric transmission and distribution infrastructure (regret I can't locate it at the moment). The author calls the whole of it "temporary" (!) -- all of the legacy utility poles, transmission lines, towers, generating stations, distribution facilities, substations, etc. -- and says that after it is all destroyed by EMP we will build one that is permanent and hardened. A little optimistic but makes the point.
Amen brother.