Your reasoning isn't far off from what mine was at the time I was choosing a major. With the benefit of hindsight I can tell you that if you want to work in th

Your reasoning isn't far off from what mine was at the time I was choosing a major. With the benefit of hindsight I can tell you that if you want to work in the quantitive side of technology, the pain of suffering through the math and truly grasping it, is absolutely and completely worth it. As time goes past, the tech industry appears to be becoming more specialized. An analogy that I think works pretty well is the medical field. In the beginning you just had "doctors", then as more advances were made, the field specialized into nurses, doctors, physicians assistants, and then further into specialties and now sub-specialities. Someone can absolutely work in technology without a firm grasp on the fundamentals, hell they can even make a lot of money. But it's a difficult leap to go from working on a React & Rails app to working on distributed systems, advancing the state of the art AI, etc. Also be careful about assumptions about who is in 'management'. This is also a mistake that I made when I didn't really understand the industry. I have spent time working for managers who are non-technical and am rebuilding my life so that I never have to do that again. Happy to chat more about this if you'd like. Good luck with your degree and I hope it works out well for you.