The STEM fields aren't cultured enough? Wut.
Are doctors a "STEM field"?
The bloody median wage for a programmer is like $86K in the USA.
If anything I'd say students are being pushed into STEM. The problem is that STEM occupations are difficult for many, many people. A lot of it is very abstract, some of requires marthing.
Like here kiddies, take a look at this paper. I understand 100% of it. This is machine learning in the modern age. Can you get past the first page?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.03678.pdf