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> but in contrast to many other jobs I believe that engineers have a higher desire to deliver good work (even if the definition of good is different for everyone)

That's my experience too. But your parenthetical remark is a very important point!

I've been in plenty of situations where an engineer cared too much about delivering 'good' work by their own definition of good, when clearly it clearly wasn't 'good' for the company/team/product. In fact, I've been that engineer myself a few times, where only in hindsight I realized that I didn't see the bigger picture.