Computer science is a legit fields of study and research, but software engineering as a career seems like a joke.
I know tons of non-software engineers who can code just as well as software engineers.
For example I'm a mechanical engineer who has tons of custom machine learning software on my GitHub.
That's the problem - ANYONE can do software engineering.
Being a software engineer is like being an air breather.
All impactful things in society are a mix of hardware and software - it seems like if you don't do both then you're just gonna be a nobody.