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Sounds like you made a good decision.

I am middle aged and completed my EE degree when I was 20, but it was 90% theory with very little practical use (mostly useful if you were to continue climbing up the education chain). Completing the degree made me despise working with electronics, a topic I had deeply loved and had spent my teenage years learning for myself. Most courses were rote learning, and I was very good at passing exams, but it was two years before I realised how pointless the majority of the “knowledge” was, and then I forced myself to finish the degree (sunk cost), which I now regard as one of the few true mistakes of my life (wasted years, for valueless academic “knowledge”). The degree got me a software job, so there is that, but I am sure I would have ended up in software anyway (early love of computers).