[rowanG077]

I have seen some code written by software engineers that was bad and also a lot that was good. They simply need to be taught how HDLs work which is conceptually simpler then something like C++.

I very much disagree that most issues are hardware specific. FPGAs all work the same way. What is different is the IP that can be ran on different FPGAs but that is generally a tooling problem not inherent to the problem domain.