I do agree and I think it's particularly true for modern women who understandably feel they've been misled about what work would be like - while I feel things have massively improved from my generation (educated in 60s/70s) where as middle class, reasonably academic girls, our ambitions were systemically and implicitly squashed as far as humanly possible
and we were told to only expect to have a career spent helping men or doing 'women's work' in secretarial or caring roles and that only until you married and had kids, or if you wanted a proper professional career you faced the horrible prospect of spinsterhood. Things were much better for my daughters (educated in 90s/00s) who were taught it was not only possible but highly likely they would 'have it all' i.e. a fulfilling, vocational professional job they were passionate about and families as well. Just like how my war-generation teachers missed the huge social revolution that intelligent educated women weren't automatically limited from professional careers any more, my generation probably didn't really get that there was a huge change away from vocational, job for life, passionate work and much more towards corporate, work to live type culture which is prevalent for Gen Z and A.
I do think we did them a disservice there, my kids and many others of their generation had a bit of a nasty shock when they emerged into the world of work not really certain of what their vocation was but having been told all along that if they worked hard and achieved academically that a 'dream job' would fall in their laps, which was always bollocks really. The kids ended up feeling like they'd somehow failed for taking just a normal job that pays the bills and/or ending up working part-time and limiting their careers for a time to raise kids, rather than being high flying over-achievers who spring out of bed delighted to work every day, which was never a realistic ambition - it's as true as it always has been for all of known time, that it's only the lucky few (usually either very talented at a particular niche thing or with a lot of parental backing and money, or both) who get to follow their passion as a full-time job, the rest of us are just playing our part in the system and should feel lucky to have reasonably secure, well remunerated employment that we don't hate, or not all the time anyway, and that gives us a nice life.
That being said I don't love the narrative that's around now that working or having a career is completely pointless or even traumatic either, and that unless you have a passion or vocation (which as above few people do) you may as well not bother working at all or as little as you can afford to. Or, what often goes hand in hand with that type of talk, the idea that the only thing that matters in the world is having a family and spending time with your family. While I agree of course family and loved ones are the most important thing, the idea that it's the only thing is a dangerous path to go down, again particularly for young women. Women's entire purpose in life being to have kids is what's behind some of the 'trad wive' movement which I find really sinister - obviously raising kids is really important and we should think about how as a society we can do it better which probably means working about how we can do better to allow parents of both genders to take time out of work to do it, but I think working outside the home does have a lot of benefits too even if you don't feel passionate about what you do - financial independence, social contact, mental stimulation and challenge, sense of achievement/fulfillment outside the purely household/family being just some. I hate it when people say 'you won't wish on your deathbed you spent more time in the office', usually as a way to encourage the person to give up work and spend more time and energy with their family. I just think its a truism. Fair enough that there's a balance to be struck and I'm sure some people (men in particular) do have deathbed regrets about not spending enough time with their kids and so on when they were young, but I think it's actually a very common regret for my generation (and perhaps it will be for my DDs too) that they sacrificed too much of their career for the children too...