It requires a disproportionate amount more work to succeed in than other careers. The payscale has a long tail and low median (everyone quotes a high mean but it's not normally distributed) which means it's really not worth it unless you are. There's better careers to be unenthusiastic about if you're just there for the money.

Maybe not, but you should at least consider not hating it.

And we must not forget that pushing young people in one direction might come at the expense of another that maybe they would have chosen themselves and where they could excel.