What you describe is far more often a CS guy looking for a way to apply his CS education instead of asking whether he's identified the correct problem, and frequently that's because, having only an academic CS background, it doesn't occur to him there might be a more serious underlying problem that has a better solution.
I don't know if it was your intention, but you're almost sounding like a CS education is a handicap to solving problems- this is at odds with my experience (I was an embedded developer before I earned my degree)
