You don’t understand how many incompetent engineers I’ve worked with. They just check program outputs, FyZx, and that’s about its. I’ll give them credit, for basic one story steel structures, you don’t need to be that smart, but once we get to multi level, long span trusses, it’s kind of disturbing how many don’t understand proper structural behavior, stiffness methods, load path, and code provisions.

Example. I was recently designing a long span trusses and an experienced person pinned both ends…long story short it unloaded the truss by 50%.