It would help us all if everyone on PPRuNe was required to state their qualifications on their public profile so that we can all relate to the level of expertise we are dealing with.
It's not going to happen, but I agree with you.
We only had two professional Flight Engineers in our operations and they were damn good. At least management was smart enough that on all of our international trips we had one of the PFEs assigned to the trips*. One saved the mission and my butt one night in the Azores when the aux. fuel tanks refused to take on fuel.
* Which was amazing, as it was a government operations.