High demand and low supply for ML engineers?

There doesn't seem to be enough good ML engineers, and those few that are good get swallowed up by huge companies.

Recently there has been a lot startups that are just thin wrappers around OpenAI API, there isn't much innovation going on. OpenAI has practically no competition in their space. I think even OpenAI could be doing better for the budget they have, but they don't have enough manpower. This could be just a temporary lag, and people might be getting ready for the economic shift.