Worth your time to read the whole piece, especially the Cathedral / Bazaar analogies…
In fact, you could say that bad engineering, just like good engineering, has helped turn technology into the most powerful force for change in the 21st century. Engineering has been incredibly democratized and it’s been good for engineers. Today’s engineers are in greater demand than ever.
And yet design—and designers—seem perpetually threatened by democratization. I’ve been a designer for two and a half decades and I’ve seen this again and again.
Source: In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible + Subtraction.com