Is being a data scientist/MLE worth it? Thinking about migrating to SDE

I am currently machine learning engineer. I feel like I have to study too much, And to put in twice as much effort in both hard-skills and soft-skills as when I was a software engineer.

I'm not badmouthing SDE. But I think DS have a lower cost benefit comparing to software engineers (On the salary, at least).

I am really thinking about studying python-Django to be a fullstack/Back-end.

So, why you left data science?

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