It is completely inexcusable that people in STEM fields are so reactionary, considering how capitalism utterly destroys science.
If universities were actually "left wing indoctrination factories" like the right thinks they are, every STEM grad would be taught, for example, what Kropotkin had to say about innovation.
That could be driving people away. People who hear about labor being in charge and not realizing that that's them.
Engineering isn't labor though, and I say that as an engineer. The vast majority of engineers in the US do nothing resembling actual design or innovation. They find ways to cut costs, to make products go obsolete, to make workers obsolete, and to sell shit and manipulate people.