Here's what future career paths very roughly look like for new grads (based on my own perceptions, not glassdoor)

This sounds reasonable to me. Most people never have the experience of tripling or quadrupling their salary in a single career pivot, but that's what happens when you decide to bail on your sci/tech graduate research program and start working in the software industry. It takes a pretty crazy level of passion for your research domain to accept such insane opportunity costs. When I realized that by staying in science/academia long term I might never be able to afford to buy a house in a decent neighborhood or have kids it made it really easy for me to quit.