Restrict engineering
While in this case I agree that this is a sensible outcome, in general I think it shouldn't be fine for anyone to call themselves an engineer. The principle is the same as (medical) doctors.
While not everything (professional) engineers do is life or death, a manor benefit to laws requiring registration is: You need someone qualified and registered to sign off on something significant like a bridge or a new airplane control system. The legal system and professional body surrounding engineering provides a strong incentive and a degree of protection so that the engineer signing off on something important will do an expert and unbiased job.
Otherwise you have a situation like at Facebook and Google where thousands of people with 'engineer' in their titles bowed to their employers wishes and developed large scale devious, manipulative and privacy violating systems, and misled authorities about it.
Professional engineers are in a better (but not perfect) situation to resist this sort of pressure.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
