Are industry specific boutiques/banks more appealing nowadays than before?

It seems like after 2008, a lot of rainmakers leave BBs/large MMs to create their own platforms at elite boutiques/independent banks (and in some case co-found a bank with fellow rainmakers). 

Post pandemic, certain industries have appeared to garner a lot more interest at least on these forums (tech, healthcare for example).

Instead of chasing the WSJ front megadeals deals like a lot of EBs do (and so well I would like to add), will we eventually see industry specific boutiques gobble up a large portion of the market (especially since many of them appear are agnostic to deal size) and quietly become highly sought after banks to chose if you want to be a career banker? Maybe more so than EB, BBs, and large MM players?

What's your opinion? I'm sure this may not be a popular opinion but hopefully produces a productive conversation.

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