I know a few like that but those people also ignore wind loading, know nothing about aspect ratio limits for wood diaphragms, & still sign things w/o reviewing them. Granted, now it is my job to start undoing decades of this thought processes embedded into my workplace but I really can see your point on having no grandfathering without passing the SE exam for everyone.
Something I noticed about SEs in general, even if they passed a long time ago, is how they approach design. So even though the angry side of me wants to say they should need to retake it and suffer like the rest of us....the objective side of me realizes that passing the test in general changes your engineering methodology. I notice that SEs who passed 10-20 years ago, even when they get to the madness that is the newer codes (I'm looking at you, ACI) they look for things that are important for design of the overall system. They don't "forget" that you need to have collectors, or things like that. The Obi-wans of the profession have a few tricks up their sleeve from back in the day.
I won't be prepared to know that earlyLast December it was released on Monday, December 10th. Is it too much wishful thinking that it will be released this Monday the 9th?
I can tell by this artwork, your pent up energy from waiting for the results is being used wisely.
I'm envisioning a heist. Something like stealing the death star plans in Rogue One. Hopefully we don't all *spoiler redacted* at the end though.
I've had run-ins with most of them. I'd say of all the sites I traffic, the ones here are the most reasonable and quick to help.
