I don't know how it is in other fields; I'm a linguist, who made the transition to computational linguistics back when you had to be a linguist to be a computat

I don't know how it is in other fields; I'm a linguist, who made the transition to computational linguistics back when you had to be a linguist to be a computational linguist (the 1980s). Slow forward to statistical (and now neural) comp ling; I find it incredibly boring. But the data work still needs to be done, and there are still linguists. And even more than me, they find computational linguistics (of whatever type) less interesting that "real" linguistics. So they will do data work, and willingly.