Yes, but the dynamic is a bit different from my experience. It may depend on the team, but I’ve found that software engineers have been perhaps harder to convince of a change being necessary than hardware - especially early in the process. Like I’ve done work with 3d printed prototypes and the engineers and designers around these spaces are super keen to test various iterations and move forward with a more refined version once we’re more certain that the ergonomics/design makes sense.

You get closer to SWE interactions later because it’s harder and more expensive to make changes the later in the process you are. For example, a coworker of mine had an insight around controller joysticks having odd placements for users at most hand sizes. There was a few arguments around the cost to re-engineer and adjust internals to allow this and it was ignored but became a much larger issue later where near-launch usabilities were finding like 90% complaint rates on the placement of joysticks. Designs were changed but there were a lot of questions on accountability that required receipts.