What part of software industrial is unclear?
I see no evidence that honeywell is interested in making engines at all.
The bread and butter of that business are designs done under the garrett name.
The newer 7000 line is a niche product at best flying on a tier two supplier.
Turbo props is even worse with honeywell selling engines that have been in service for the best part of 70yrs. Honeywell stays in this business because they can sell these old products.
Are you really bragging that honeywell has to invest 6 years into someone before getting return on that labor? Think about that in business terms.
Now...The entire company is starved for R&D and capital because the only hope of staying in the engines business is to invest roughly a BILLION dollars with little hope of ROI in the next decade.
What would you do as a business leader? Do you think it is easy asking little D for a billion dollars right now? Yeah.. send thank you cards to your GBE leaders.
And yes... software engineers are the modern equivalent of a day laborer doing piecework (SLOCS/hr) in the fields. Anyone with training can do their work anywhere in the world.
Sorry, thems the facts. So i do consider them replaceable. So do our business leaders based on their actions.
These tea leaves arent hard to read.