[blablabla123]

I guess that's the difference between proper Engineering and hacking something quickly and under self-inflicted pressure together. Your nieces app might work on her setup but not on others and may need almost a complete rewrite on an OS/API update. The properly engineered solution on the other hand might "just work" for years. I think key is to realise how much engineering is needed on what occasion. I find it disturbing when a simple app has highly sophisticated error handling unit tests as I would find it disturbing to find 30kLOC code bases with no unit tests, completely random spaghetti architecture and no explicit error handling.

[closeparen]

No, self-inflicted communication overhead due to a bloated bureaucracy is not what separates engineering from hacking.

[blablabla123]

I guess it depends on the company. But most of the time it seems bloated bureaucracy is a symptom of dysfunctional work relationships. When people know what to expect from each other and stuff "just works", then there is no need for any such thing and indeed you probably won't find it I think