That's not what you said though - you said it was a bad career choice. I'm saying it was a good one, even if you didn't end up directly doing a lot of high-level math.
Going through forced detours in life doesn't make it a "good choice".
The good choices are the ones where people finish their studies/apprenticeships and then immediately work in their direct field. For example a law student becoming a lawyer.
At most I'd consider that a "mediocre choice".
But that's what everyone is lamenting the loss of, that AI is taking that specific job.