No complaints here - a valid point about regulation of title in the US. As you'll see from my previous post, the ARB (www.arb.org.uk) is a little more pragmatic about matters in the UK, simply requiring disambiguation when using the title.

I'm not sure if it qualifies as title envy or just plain metaphor. It is (as even the AIA concede), a valid use of English to use "architect" to describe anyone involved in design and planning, albeit of questionable (and state-dependent) legality to do so in the US when referring to a job title. The software industry is full of metaphor (Microsoft Windows isn't actually made of glass as it turns out), perhaps due to its recency or since it derived from branches of engineering or maybe due to software itself being a metaphor. Perhaps over time the industry will develop its own titles as the discipline achieves some of the rigour of building construction.

That said, I hope most people recognise and adhere to the regulation of the architect title in the US and don't mean to belittle the effort that goes into becoming qualified and registered as such.