Very solid point, and something I should have said earlier. I'm a computer science major that went into embedded by circumstance of working in a particular fie

Very solid point, and something I should have said earlier. I'm a computer science major that went into embedded by circumstance of working in a particular field, but we were always kind of rare. (I should have gone into CE, which in my school was a hybrid of CS and EE and would have been more valuable). The influx of CS majors into embedded now is creating a new field of innovation and also a new field of problems, like people trying to cram node.js into microcontrollers. But, if you saw the actual code that EEs would write, the past was way way worse.