#bma you are right, I would say only 20% of Engineers have the drive interest to be in the field i.e. master black belts the rest of ppl should move on.
A good engineer i.e can build and run team of 8 to -15 Jr Journeyman Engineers. The black belt can train these youngster and is gold. Everyone moves into admin, or leaves thru layoffs. I bet you and ten ppl with 0 to 4 yrs experience 99% of other teams, you could care less if h1 or not. That's the econimics team bynamics is key