>There is an arrogance I have seen that is typical of ML (having worked in the field) that makes its members too comfortable trodding into adjacent intellectual fields they should have more respect and reverence for.
I've not only noticed it but had to live with it a lot as a robotics guy interacting with ML folks both in research and tech startups. I've heard essentially same reviews of ML practitioners in any research field that is "ML applied to X" and X being anything from medical to social science.
But honestly I see the same arrogance in software world people too, and hence a lot here in HN. My theory is that, ML/CS is an entire field around made-for-human logic machine and what we can do with it. Which is very different from anything real (natural) science or engineering where the system you interact with is natural Laws, which are hard and not made to be easy to understand or made for us, unlike programming for example. When you sit in a field when feedback is instant (debuggers/bug msg), and you deep down know the issues at hand is man-made, it gives a sense of control rarely afforded in any other technical field. I think your worldview get bent by it.
CS folk being basically the 90s finance bro yuppies of our time (making a lot of money for doing relatively little) + lack of social skills making it hard to distinguish arrogance and competence probably affects this further. ML folks are just the newest iteration of CS folks.