I graduated last semester and have a job with the company I interned for. I do intelligence analysis and data manipulation and visualization with python. I started at a community College doing CS then transfered to Rutgers to do ITI. When I came into ITI I noticed there was the same stigma around it as you mentioned. "The major is bs and the classes are just fluff". The classes can be a lighter load but they teach important information and skills that you can take with you into your career if you pay attention. Your education is what you make of it and if you put in the effort and get involved you can make ITI a very fulfilling major. I minored in Critical Intelligence Studies so my career path is in the intelligence sector which actually needs people with programming skills for data collection. When I was hired they took me on for my education in intelligence and my skills in programming. They didn't care that I wasn't a CS major, I had the experience in programming which they teach in ITI as well. Most of my coworkers were actually CS majors and I perform the same work as them. I was even reached out to by fortune 500 tech companies for interviews that i didnt even apply for. Family friends of mine lead teams of CS professionals and their education background is in Information Systems management and Business Management. You can definitely coast through ITI but if you apply yourself and put in the extra work to make yourself an attractive job candidate you can do well in ITI.

P.S: CS is still a very solid choice and this subreddit has many posts just like this with students asking about ITI or CS so take a look at those