>It's a career-limiting niche. This depends on your career aspiration. There are not as many companies hiring graphics programmers as there are shops who need

>It's a career-limiting niche. This depends on your career aspiration. There are not as many companies hiring graphics programmers as there are shops who need "front end" or whatever they call scripting web pages nowadays but the barrier to entry is rather high so there are plenty of jobs in every FAANG plus Microsoft, Tesla, self-driving shops (I even have been approached by self-flying robots startups couple of times), training (from military to oil rigs), of course, the every game studio (which may or may not pay little and force you to work overtime, I am pretty sure a graphics programmer at, say, Roblox has better compensation and working condition than a front-end developer at Amazon, for example), and yes, the 5 or 6 companies that need drivers (Apple, NVidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, ARM, Intel, etc).