This approach quickly turns into frustration: people behave irrationally, for example, which turns economics from an offspring of mathematics into something more akin to applied psychology. Laws fail to live up to a standard of "plain meaning", because the myriad conflicts of life are to nuanced to be exhaustively captured in simple language. That's where the distrust of the legal system, as well as "smart contracts" come from.
It's interesting to compare engineers and scientists in this regard: the most successful scientists tend to have a vast appreciation of culture beyond their field of study. Richard Feynman, for example, excelled in music and painting, and became a bestselling author.
I really hope knowledge of how the scientific process works in practice becomes more common among engineers though, it's very frustrating when someone takes a study as being the word of god, and you can't convince them otherwise, because science. Like some 3-4 years ago there was some lab claiming to be on the cusp of having a real cold fusion prototype, and people just buy in because they want it to be true, and the lab had written a paper.
Runaway success stories are incredibly rare. Worse, the people who are most famous for achieving them rarely appear particularly sympathetic or humane.
Edit to add: that was a great read, IMO - unusually interesting and insightful.
What I wonder more is: is it a product of the "build it" mentality like Turner says, or is it manipulated by money men with an interest is maintaining the status quo by silencing dissent as non-scientific?