How about licensure and liability instead? That’s the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the rest of the engineering world. Sure it’s a guild system with a new name, but if the bridge collapses, somebody is going to be in a courtroom.

Customers are free to demand that software vendors take liability for certain defects or failures as part of contract negotiation. There's no need for governments to get involved.

For software that's actually safety critical, like avionics, there are already sufficient regulatory controls.

And the one in the courtoom is the head of the engineering firm, not the low level guy :)