They, and my astrophysicist brother both agreed that they think this is the best choice. They were telling me this a year before I gave up on my pursuit of being a technician.
This wasn't my first choice either for the exact reasons you're talking about. It took a lot of insight to decide on...
Officially, nothing so far. I've just been doing general electives over the summer. Said courses have been on 20th century history, and racism in Canada.
Still, I'm enjoying it far more than rigorous study of electronics backed by negligent foreign profs. So who knows, I might get involved in...
I'm in the opposite camp. Hands with arms feels unimmersive because they don't track your real arm movements and make you look like a t-rex. Also in Boneworks, they count as physics objects, so you can clothesline yourself when trying to enter a door.