Data Science, AI and Hype cycles

When in industry more than 50% of new roles are driven towards a specific skill set and when projections from various recruiting companies shows the world being short of certain skilled people and employers are scrambling to find certain type of resources in the market and are willing to pay a premium to get them on-board then it is a clear sign that we're in a hype cycle. The skill here is Data Science and resources Data Scientists. Those who have been in the industry long enough can recognize this. A decade back industry was going crazy for a similar skill known as Business Analysts, who are now found dime a dozen in the market (apologies if I've hurt someone's sentiments, but you can't escape the truth). I know certain organizations where the certain preference is being given to Data Modelers, Data Analysts & data Scientists instead of sitting Business Analysts.