Browsing through archives at The Volokh Conspiracy I came across an old discussion of Burkean conservatism. It’s good because a critic clearly states the main problem: that a Burkean would not support sufficiently fast social change to end grave injustices which are supported by social traditions. Also, two people who self-identify as at least partially Burkean give their views, which gives a nice parallax view. Typically, of course, by the end of the exchange, none of the three has changed his mind.
Since I’m trying to avoid labels I don’t have a team in this fight. I will simply note that a Burkean engineer would be likely to create an overdamped control system — characterized by slow initial response to perturbation and long slow settling with no overshoot; while a non-Burkean radical would create a control system with a fast initial response to perturbation. And a non-ideological engineer would pick the best control system based on the client’s needs. (For a screen door, for example, I cannot stand bouncing, so I prefer critically or over-damped control.)