It's fine to want money. Who are we to judge someone who sets the goal of getting a good job, looks into upcoming fields that pay well and then applies to a university to spend years studying it. It's perfectly fine and rational. In free tuition countries this may be someone from a lower economic class, crawling out of their situation.

It's legit and okay not to be a wunderkind from age 2 who built computers with his dad from the get go in order to be eligible to study CS or AI. Of course once they are in, they have to go along with the program.

But I get annoyed with this gatekeeping attitude that only us nerds are worthy to learn AI. If you are smarter and put more effort in, you don't have to become bitter, there is nothing to fear, you will be able to demonstrate your expertise and will still get good jobs, even if there is a bigger supply of the those who are only in it for the money.

One might argue medicine is a split-off piece from natural sciences.

A counter-argument might be that while the natural sciences are almost always split, where they aren't, such as at Cambridge, medicine is still of course separate.

I think the real reason is probably just that there's more value to most medicos in a whole-body understanding than there is to most engineers in a multi-disciplinary understanding.

I'd quite like to need to routinely design electronic circuits, CAD/CAM packaging for them with certain mechanical constraints, and develop software to run on them in my work, but I don't; that'd need to be a very small company working on a physical product for that not to be at least two people's jobs.