Professional Engineer licensure to be able to actually charge for software (this carves out exception for FOSS and freeware) could raise the costs enough to make this kind of software engineering viable. The problem today is competitors will iterate with piles of temporary solutions and eat your lunch while you're still designing your abstractions. If they got sued into oblivion for shipping broken crap, they wouldn't be so quick to iterate on junk!
PE licensure could also foster a security culture in software like none other, as no PE is going to put his fortunes on the line to save a buck skipping formal verifications and avoiding inconvenient best practices!