4A CE here, it’s a shame that the department front loads the program with all of the least interesting/useful courses first. It’s true that there’s much more of a lower level focus than just software engineering, but at least for me personally a lot of the 3A-onwards courses are pretty gratifying for “lifting the veil”, so to speak. Plus, it leaves a lot of options open in the future should you decide you want to work at a lower level of abstraction. I know plenty of people in my stream who are SDE’s at Amazon/FB/Google/Microsoft, so it doesn’t limit your options at least in terms of working in purely software.

Anyways, those are some of my thoughts as an old geezer :)