Because that's where the money is. You don't get paid for your technical abilities but for how much value you bring to an employer. There are probably a good ch

Because that's where the money is. You don't get paid for your technical abilities but for how much value you bring to an employer. There are probably a good chunk of researchers that still eat instant ramen at the end of the month that were involved with all those AI algorithms that are all the rage right now for Google Bard, ChatGPT and whatever MS calls their Bing stuff. I thought about switching to something more low level but as long as I can stomach my current job I don't really see a good reason why. I don't even earn that much money but I'd probably still take a pay cut going into embedded.