I find the implicit assumption a bit funny that the only reason OP might be asking this is for career reasons rather than say, curiosity, the joy of learning, love of knowledge for its own sake.
That's exactly correct; I currently want to learn this more so in a hobby/personal interest fashion. I think the field is quite competitive already and I'm not fooling myself about doing novel model-architecture work professionally.
Not surprising though. I'm sure this is just my stereotype, but I swear that most times such assumption comes along with interesting words which I don't understand at all (in this context) like "tools" "integration" "landscape" etc.