My feeling has been that it’s a lot of people that work on B2B SaaS that are sad they hadn’t gotten the chance to work on the Manhattan Project. Be around the smartest people in your field. Contribute something significant (but dangerous! And we need to talk about it!) to humanity. But yeah computer science in the 21st century has not turned out to be as interesting as that. Maybe just as important! But Jeff Bezos important, not Richard Feynman important.