Why would anyone choose to go into private equity over private credit today?

High interest rates here to stay, increasing AUM flows to private credit, lower bar for promotion, better WLB, anything I’m missing? Obviously lower carry potential, but with PE having IRR of 8-9% with vintages of past ten years (lower than an unlevered senior direct lending fund), I struggle to understand why PC is not more popular

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