Are Most Machine Learning Experts Turning to Deep Learning?

Yes, most faculty, graduate students, and a lot of engineering teams in industry have already abandoned everything else and shifted to deep learning. Most new graduate students in applied areas such as computer vision that I meet, know nothing about probabilistic graphical models for instance, and their proposed solution to any problem is a CNN/LSTM/GAN. It is a huge deal to have an algorithm that can absorb large amounts of data - which is what deep learning methods enable. The (re-)discovery of such an algorithm (deep neural network training) has thus made possible many new applications, which were not possible just a few years ago. How excited are you about the steam engine today?