This is the result of telling everybody that they will be screwed and unemployable if they get a humanities degree: a bunch of people who aren’t technical at all have struggled through STEM degrees out of fear. Oops, there goes that signal.
They don’t need more time behind the keyboard, we as a society need to figure out how to provide middle class lifestyles to people who aren’t good behind the keyboard.
I mean we’re talking about careers that will start building generational wealth, it is not surprising that people will do whatever they need to get in.