> engineers are often left holding the bag when other participants of the process leave out important details
That sounds like a process problem and not an engineering problem. If I've been given requirements, I'm going to trust that my project managers and stakeholders have done the due diligence to understand their request.
Also you've got to realize that different developers tackle issues in different ways. Not every engineer is going to be super talkative while they're in the mud trying to get something to work until they've hit a wall that they don't feel like they have enough information to overcome. I think expecting an engineer to sit there and talk through every aspect of their reasoning WHILE working is fundamentally counter to the way that most engineers perform their day-to-day jobs.
That sounds like a process problem and not an engineering problem. If I've been given requirements, I'm going to trust that my project managers and stakeholders have done the due diligence to understand their request.
Also you've got to realize that different developers tackle issues in different ways. Not every engineer is going to be super talkative while they're in the mud trying to get something to work until they've hit a wall that they don't feel like they have enough information to overcome. I think expecting an engineer to sit there and talk through every aspect of their reasoning WHILE working is fundamentally counter to the way that most engineers perform their day-to-day jobs.