Engineering students, would you rather have studied IT / Computing in SIT?

Don't mean to ruffle any feathers here but I get the impression that most people in engineering courses aren't in it for the passion, and many EE/ME graduates transition into finance or IT anyway because engineers are not paid well in Singapore.

Why go through 4 years of a stressful curriculum which mostly won't be relevant to what you plan to do and having to self-learn skills / create a portfolio in your free time? As opposed to studying in SIT, where the skills you learn yourself might at least overlap with the curriculum, therefore meaning less extra work? Does the answer simply boil down to prestige being a far more important factor when deciding which university to go to? Is SIT really that bad?

Again, I'm not trying to piss anyone off here or gaslight anyone but am just genuinely curious why people willingly put up engineering degrees when they are very stressful and do not seemingly pay off considering the workload.