If an industry is getting promoted it is so that there are plenty of drones to do the job.

If you want to code, just make stuff that you like and people will notice.

Games are big deals. The budgets are bigger than big films. The numbers of people who create them are also huge! Look at the latest film with any kind of special effects. Thousands of credits. Games are this way, too.

Make a list of what are the pluses and minuses.

If you can't get paid doing what you like, get paid so that you can do what you like. You could document your experience here and stack sats.