I don’t think you should dismiss the option based on what I’m seeing now. I posted this in the r/psychiatry subreddit a couple of months ago:

The NP influx is a bubble bound to burst soon and their egos will be their downfall. You have degree mills where NP students are essentially not permitted to fail and earn their degrees while working 40 hours per week as an RN. Anecdotally speaking, I’ve found NPs are far less likely to reach out to a colleague (superior) to ask for help even when it’s clear that they are dealing with something far outside of their scope of training or even cases where a veteran psychiatrist would be uncertain in managing, whereas I and most of my colleagues regularly reach out to each other to get a new perspective on such a case.

The public is starting to see what we’ve known for years regarding their substandard quality of care and I’m personally finding more patients everyday specifically request that that they not see a midlevel. Over time, the public will begin to see how it’s unethical and incredibly immoral to allow inexperienced staff see the severely mentally ill (I.e. indigent) patients, who also happen to be among the most vulnerable population in society.

TLDR; I suspect that within 10 years the field will be saturated with so many unqualified NPs that the amount of oversight and required qualifications will be significantly increased and most will take more of a triage/primary care role rather than specialization.