No. Look around you in any tech organisation and see how much value is generated by the people who code vs. data scientists, and how many software people there

No. Look around you in any tech organisation and see how much value is generated by the people who code vs. data scientists, and how many software people there are vs data scientists. ML is very popular and the startup ecosystem has latched on to it for funding but the fundamentals of CS have not changed. Sure, there's real money in ML but there's plenty of lucrative opportunities in software development. Your post somewhat proves my point: you are here (and presumably thriving) in software dev despite taking many courses that you deem only tangentially related, years ago. Whether the same can be said of bootcampers remains an open question, because they haven't been in the industry long enough. Anecdotal evidence from software dev managers I know who have tried hiring bootcampers has been overwhelmingly negative (but they are often comparing BS/MS/PhDs who have spent 4-10 years immersed in various aspects of CS to bootcampers, which isn't fair).