This might sound bad but I wish I had a similar level of resolve. I tolerate far too much insanity from people in my family.

“is usually written by an over worked engineer”

I’m in this post and I don’t like it.

But really these scada systems are rarely well defined by the time implementation happens. Often the architect has a great plan, but by the time it’s passed to a manager, a non-software engineer, to the product engineer to the automation team to the contractor the end result is “X data is pushed in With Y form and we use either a,b,or c date time stamp any nobody knows”