[Nahoa]

No ruffled feathers. Interesting subject. Apologies if I came across argumentative. Not my intent. That said, engineers often don't move linearly one step to the next. That's a stereotype of the profession focused on those more of what I'd call a technician vice an engineer. Engineering is a distinctly nonlinear process involving creativity and inspiration. Processes might tee up data, but what's done with that data is creative. It is really very poorly understood. Consider Apple and engineering. Was engineering the iPhone a linear process? Absolutely not. And it was engineers who dd that and so many other revolutionary things on our world.