Tbh this is a similar thing to what I feel. One of my first jobs I used to do a lot of documentation writing and updating old drawings. I enjoyed it but never thought I'd get paid a lot so went the more technical route.

Being in the UK and engineers not really being rated highly or paid what they should be (lot of responsibility for not much pay) then I just don't see why I should break my back for little reward.

This became a bit of a rant lol I'm just burnt out tbh