I've worked with a lot of engineers. Most of us aren't really that smart and usually we make problems much more complicated than they need to be.

I'd trust a unique and fairly original monetary system run by good engineers. But most engineers are really not that good.

I've seen evidence that suggests the leading engineers behind Bitcoin are good. In contrast, I've seen repeated evidence over decades that the folks leading the US government are dangerously incompetent on things which are incredibly important to get right for all the rest of us, namely the economy, the environment/ecosystem and health care.