You’re ascribing diseases to an entity that does not exist.
Software engineering is not a discipline, at least not like physics or even computer science. Most software engineers, out there writing software, do not attend conferences. They do not write papers. They do not read journal articles. Their information comes from management practices, consulting, and the occasional architect, and a whole heapin’ helpin’ of tribal wisdom—like the statistic you show. At NASA on the Shuttle software, we were told this statistic regularly, to justify all the process and rigor and requirements reviews and design reviews and code reviews and review reviews that we underwent.
Software engineering is to computer science what mechanical engineering is to physics.
How late do these usually go? I’d like to come, but I was already making plans that day. I can shorten them slightly and come mid-afternoon if this is going to go into the evening.