I have a bachelor's in operations research (labeled Information & Systems Engineering) and have been finding myself looking up ML certifications because the job

I have a bachelor's in operations research (labeled Information & Systems Engineering) and have been finding myself looking up ML certifications because the jobs posted in relation to the problems I am trained to solve are asking for it. I have been all-in on the data wave since picking my major in 2010, and honestly most of the time all you need is SQL and a pivot table. I already learned python to smooth some edges on what people think the job is about. To bite the bullet on ML makes me worried I am going to spread myself too thin. I spent hours researching in my own time and it is so vast. Like you said, you need to be committed as a data scientist at that point. Has operations research become a specialization of data science now?