Physicists and Mathematics majors can only be better than a CS grad, if they come prepped with Softwrae Development experience. A CS grad can communicate better with the code they write and most of the time assuming it's straight CS have knowledge and experience of ML that exceeds a Physics/Math major.
Anecdotally, I've worked in places where this is a major source of contention - The Data Scientists treated as talented individuals (who produce broken solutions which work for cherry picked data sets), and anyone else is just a monkey who maintains and fixes the broken code.
Surely, the same can be said 'it doesn't make you not nice, by doing something which the state considers illegal'. The assumption that the state has everyones best interest at heart is nonsense. In the UK it's becoming more apparent that the state is a considerable part of the problem.
Arbitrary rules set by states is not a moral barometer.
Anecdotally, I've worked in places where this is a major source of contention - The Data Scientists treated as talented individuals (who produce broken solutions which work for cherry picked data sets), and anyone else is just a monkey who maintains and fixes the broken code.