[nitrogen]

Software engineering requires understanding enough of the reason behind requirements to know when the requirements could be simplified or should be augmented. I would even argue that understanding business needs and translating them into practice is the fundamental role of software engineering.

[gugagore]

This requirement might never have reached a software engineer in many organizations, and perhaps that's what I mean. So part of the mastery is ensuring you are around to provide solutions when business needs are being deliberated. That's fair.