Isn't it because that's probably one of the hardest, if not the hardest technical role right now? It's novel, and incorporates potentially every other kind of a

Isn't it because that's probably one of the hardest, if not the hardest technical role right now? It's novel, and incorporates potentially every other kind of area in CS. At the moment engineers in games are the best suited to jump over, but I can see the field expanding like the game industry and AR/VR needing more specialized roles like it is right now in web. Of course it is also what the tech companies are betting on, so makes sense they try to fund it more.