Does doing rocket assisted brain surgery sounds arrogant? It's a cry for help.

Software is infinitely more complex to civil engineering (this isn't a good thing). Because it can literally do almost anything.

In civil engineering you have a bridge from point A to point B over a river. Points are on such and such soil. It needs to support X amount of traffic and gets inspection/repair every Y days.

In software you have a bridge, but we also need it to launch a space shuttle, and it needs to work as an air ship. It goes from point A to point B but soil is periodically changed (sometimes it's diamond and sometimes gravel or marshmallow). Oh and river can sometimes turn to molten metal or solid oxygen.

Think of it however you'd like to. You're entitled to your opinion. But we're not saying these things from a place of arrogance.

I'm not claiming we're better that civil engineers, or that our job is harder. Maybe you're reading it that way, but I'm trying to assert that such a comparison cannot be made. It's neither easier nor harder, and it's both. The two endeavours are just not comparable.

Civil engineers work with real, physical, tangible things. Hardware, so to speak. We work with ... software. Soft. Ware. The modes are entirely different, and thus the universe of challenges. I wouldn't compare painting to songwriting, even if they're both art.

But if you go up to a painter and talk to them exclusively using songwriting analogies and when they tell you that doesn't make sense and you plug your fingers into your ears and yell "Arrogant!" in their face ... well, you're entitled to you opinions and apples are still not the same things as oranges.