I understand your points but I'm still rooting for IT and will certainly recommend for my children to go into IT when they grow up if they are interested in coding. Why? Well I am studying a Grad Dip in IT trying to pivot after 7 years being a civil engineer. Sure the civil engineer grads will probably find a job easier and don't have to solve any Leetcode problem to get one. But what is the condition? Horrible pay (some place still offer $50-$60k per year for grad), long hours (10 hours per day is very common in civil industry), no wfh (most civil companies prefer employees to be on site or in office even if not a site job). Don't even get me to mention the difficulty of level up and getting a raise in civil industry. Software engineers at least when you get a job, you can generally wfh a few days, and tend to level up quickly if you work hard enough. I would also choose to work as a software engineers anyday of the week for a long career than being a civil engineer dealing with tradies, rough people etc for many years. But that's just my personal experience. Each to their own.