This is a pretty low quality, low effort rant of the "back in my day" variety. "Engineers nowadays don't know what they are doing simply because I say so"
I have many engineer friends. They have no problem understanding the math and physics and concepts of things like statics analysis and don't use simulation "because they don't understand the problem" but because simulations allow you to use more complicated, or more unusual structures that classical methods simply cannot work with.
Your stupid slide rule and winging cannot compete with the power that you get from actually using the math that your older methods just approximate. Turns out, much more accurate simulation allows for BETTER SOLUTIONS.
Stop being a crotchety and elitist angry person and try to understand the way things are going, instead of casting new methods aside because you don't personally understand or get them.
I have many engineer friends. They have no problem understanding the math and physics and concepts of things like statics analysis and don't use simulation "because they don't understand the problem" but because simulations allow you to use more complicated, or more unusual structures that classical methods simply cannot work with.
Your stupid slide rule and winging cannot compete with the power that you get from actually using the math that your older methods just approximate. Turns out, much more accurate simulation allows for BETTER SOLUTIONS.
Stop being a crotchety and elitist angry person and try to understand the way things are going, instead of casting new methods aside because you don't personally understand or get them.