My rule of thumb is to never take career or personal finance advice from mass media articles.
As someone who has been in various roles in SF tech scene for a few years now, I've never thought of "data scientist" as a "sexy" job at all. You are basically a data analyst spending more than half your time cleaning data and waiting for queries to finish running.
Same goes for product managers...very few, if any, have authority over the actual "product vision" and spend most of their time writing tickets, project managing, in meetings.
I don't know what the bull case for Lyft is at all. They haven't expanded into other products or markets outside of pure U.S. ridesharing, which had already been plateauing for some time. Uber, OTOH, has years of experience operating and expanding internationally, has built UberEats into it's own mult-bil vertical on it's own, and owns substantial shares of dominant ridesharing cos in other markets like Grab, DiDi, now Careem, etc.