Yep. why struggle doing research when you can make 500K a year writing stock trading algorithms.

…because research contributes to make a better society for everyone compared to scamming people with overhyped stocks?

But yes, in reality, the trend seems to be finance first, if you can get in.

diluted with a bunch of money-hungry STEM’s who were never even that good at engineering.

That’s all the STEMs now. The actual competent ones are on Wall Street.