This sounds good until you realize that half or more of the software engineers are people working in 3rd world countries who just need a job, or they're H-1B's working in the US who can't afford to make waves.
We would need to form some kind of global union and push back together.
In the US there is a great example of a government agency that works to reduce emergent complexity in situations like this - NIST.
NIST does a lot of work behind the scenes in advanced technical fields. I wonder if it would help if there was a NIST publication enumerating common time and date keeping patterns, like we have for cryptography.
We would need to form some kind of global union and push back together.