Most people hate lawyers, but plenty of people still want to be one.
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/surveyed-lawyers-rep...
If our goal is to shovel new people into the system as quickly as others are quitting, I suppose lawyers are a good aspirational example. But if we assume that the best teachers are ones who like their jobs and have been around for a while, we might want to try a different model.
Lawyers will mostly attest how divorce/family practice has nothing on actual criminal practice, and it might be even harder. Most people don't know about the long hours, the case studies, etc. They think it's the romantic view of what they see on TV
Doctors have to know how to deal with bodly fluids. Of various kinds. They have to learn how to tell a family a dear person died. They have to literally survive residency.
Same with writing software. I get rather tired of running into people that obviously took it up for the money, then found they weren't particularly good at it. Being a good engineer (software, or otherwise) is hard.
In my experience, these folks tend to be quite concerned about the "culture," as opposed to the actual art of the field. They look and sound great, but don't rely on them to actually ship anything.
Delivering software is really difficult. I've been doing it for my entire adult life, so it's become pretty much habit. It's always shocking to encounter folks that aren't able to deliver software, yet have been in the field for a very long time.
The much higher salary makes up for it, but you can't seriously expect teachers to get the same salary as lawyers.
One of the reasons that the NEA is such a powerful union, is that its members, are, by definition, educated to a Masters Degree, or better.
Although the bar exam specifically is probably harder than any single component of teacher licensure, overall they are comparable, as teachers have more components.