[apsophus]

You'll be fine.

Yes, it's true that if you happen to have expertise in ML or a related field then your career prospects right now are looking good. But not having ML absolutely doesn't mean that your career prospects are bad. To use medicine as a parallel: sure, it might be sexy and lucrative to be a Brain Surgeon (or whatever), but 1) only a tiny percentage of doctors can be brain surgeons, and 2) being a doctor is a solid and well-paid career no matter what you specialize in.

As for the people who say ML is going to make most software developers obsolete because machines are going to learn to write code - don't believe the hype. A large chunk of the work programmers do is translating vague specifications from other humans into precise technical concepts (and only then into code). The only kind of machine thay could really do that kind of work well would be a general AI, and that is 1) not even on the horizon in terms of our current technical knowledge, and 2) basically a social and cultural singularity for humanity as a whole, so that worrying about your own career prospects I those circumstances would honestly be kind of silly.