I'm sympathetic to the title inflation issue but more on the problem of the "engineer" title, not to mention the "scientist" title.

For example, I work in Data & AI and we have:

- data engineer

- analytics engineer

- data scientist

- AI engineer

What I don't know is what's the alternative?

Data Engineers are basically software developers.

Analytics Engineers were Data Analysts or BI Analysts but the job has changed so much that neither of those titles fit.

My opinion is that basically everyone should just be a "Developer" or "Programmer" and then have the area suffixed:

- Data Engineer → Developer (Data Infrastructure)

- Analytics Engineer → Developer (Analytics)

etc.