I've been a hardware engineer for the past few years and I do think a lot of it seems greener on the other side. I use FPGAs and microcontrollers for a whole host of things, along with traditional electronic elements.

The tools more often than not want me to pull my hair out (coded mostly in Tcl...), the technical forums and support are often non-existent, and the technologies quite often haven't been update with QoL changes in 20+ years.