Sewage treatment plant software is probably an awesome field to have a career, aside from when you want to explain what you do at cocktail parties.
Video game development is the most glamorous showbiz part of the industry, so working there is, on average, really awful.
As a side note - In my experience the best paid but most mind-meltingly dangerous industrial controls work is in oil refining. The most low-stress (and somewhat less well paid) work i've experienced is in designing control systems for hydroelectric facilities for private utilities. I wouldn't consider either glamorous but the hydro work does have a more environmentally friendly image and does have a correlating lower pay!
I don't know... tell that to everyone who rebranded their statistics degree as "Data Science" starting ten years ago and got a huge career boost, or all the fresh-outs with multi-hundred-$ grant packages because they got an A in their Machine Learning class.
In fact, I can think of glamorous places that do pretty well for their software engineers (Pixar, Apple, ...) and I've seen firsthand how unglamorous companies can also be shitty and low-pay.
Apart from video games, I think there's not many examples to bolster your claim.
If there are really sewage industry jobs that pay better than FAANG, please tell me more cause I'm interested