It's like building buildings without "building science" - which, surprisingly, we have actually been doing in many ways to the current date.

There aren't really formal schools of "be a carpenter and build a house" - it's all very master/apprentice even if it is not formally so everywhere. And since things like "energy usage" of the building didn't really matter until recently, many buildings just kept being built the way they always have.

Now things like "can we keep this building comfortable at much less energy usage with some additional up-front costs" are coming to the forefront, and how buildings are built is slowly changing.

Compared to that, software is very in its infancy, because the real only bottom line items are "does it mostly work" and "did it not cost infinity dollars more than it made".