Some people can mean a few people. So what if a few people hate engineers and HN? They are extremely valuable and look how the world has been improved because of them.
Perhaps by some, you meant many? Then you should come out and say it. And even if many people hated engineers, that would still not mean engineers must change.
In the 1960s the USA had a math and science crisis in schools. Russia was far ahead in engineers, possibly because the culture didn’t really put down “nerds and geeks” as much as in the USA. Blaming the victim for using precise language is perhaps missing the point. The US with its huge population desperately played catch-up in STEM until the H1B visa saved the day!
It’s not just my opinion, that’s what Kaku says, among SOME, perhaps MILLIONS, of others:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM