If you're looking to chat to people, it's mediocre.
Most over-the-air traffic is digimodes, empty exchanges or very personal problems of old people. There is also digital voice traffic (partly on VHF/UHF but really mostly over the internet) which might be more interesting as more technical people seem to be involved.
If you're looking to experiment with RF, it's a hoot !
Technology has never been more accessible; it's easier than ever to build, test, experiment. There's a geostationary satellite that reaches 5 continents and you can work it with an old satellite dish and some cheap WiFi equipment. There are programmes like SOTA or POTA that mix going outdoors with Amateur Radio and they're immensely popular. An engineer from India is selling this cheap highly moddable transceiver kit that covers all the HF bands in SSB/CW and tens of thousands have built it. High-power RF transistors? Leaps and bounds over the last decade. There's a huge list of learning & development plaforms available to make anything you want, all with online communities to help you along the way. These are golden times.
This ^ is pretty much my view.
To expand, there are some pluses and minuses with amateur radio but mostly a lot of pluses if you look at them with a healthy perspective.
Learning what you need to learn to pass the exam(s) will give you the opportunity to transmit and in the process no matter what you learned previously, you will learn more. I think you will find there are many practical as well as theoretical aspects to ham radio both in terms of science/technology and in terms of the opportunity for human communications.
If you do local VHF/UHF work it might depend on the repeaters in your area. I think you will find that many of the repeater operators use VHF/UHF as a party-line (an old telephone term) to talk with other hams about the same stuff they would discuss at a bar or at Home Depot. However, in local radio clubs you will find a spectrum of interests from the social to the technical and some of the technically minded people (and some of the social too) can be outstanding teachers/Elmers.
In my case, I found that moving from VHF/UHF to HF was a significant threshold. I'm sure there are lots of uses for VHF/UHF beyond repeaters (such as working satellites - and all the way to EME) but when you get to HF things become much more interesting. If you can develop the skill CW is cool. But even if Morse code isn't your thing SSB voice, and some aspects of digital data are more interesting (at least to me versus local VHF/UHF) in that you can get out of town, out of the state/region, and out of the country. There is something almost magical about being able to send and receive signals thousands of miles around the world. What you have to learn to get the license, build up (even it's just buying) a station (including radio, antenna, and various accessories) will grow your understanding and appreciation for physics, electricity, electronics, analog and digital, RF, and more. Along the way, while many of your QSOs (contacts) will just want to exchange a few seconds or maybe a few minutes worth of information so they can log the call, you also will “meet” many interesting people who will take the time to share useful insights into still more aspects of the endeavor. And likewise you will be able to help others who adopt amateur radio later than you. Both the learning and teaching opportunities are large.
Today in ham radio we do have one very unfortunate situation: solar conditions. We are finishing an 11 year cycle with poor conditions and we appear to be headed into another cycle with comparably poor conditions. This makes propagation and therefore QSOs much more difficult than in many other cycles. I've heard older hams say that in the 1950s/60s they could make contacts around the world with ease with relatively smaller antennas and much less advanced radio technology than we have today. The good news is that with SDR and other developments we can overcome some of this. In fact, it amazes me when I think of older operators who had to retune their tube amps when changing bands and who had to run their VFO up and down a dial while listening for signals. Today, with an ICOM 7300 or other radios with a panadapter you can visually see all the signals across a band and you can jump from band to band (if you have the right antenna/s set up), and you can zoom in on individual signals to find the exact edges. On top of that, the operators of old had to exchange post cards with people around the world via mail while keeping paper logs - versus today our electronic/PC logs are connected to the radio and can update almost automatically or with a few keys strokes after a QSO and then kick off a QSO confirmation via LoTW or eQSL, etc. So, yes, the older hams had some great advantages (mostly solar - which is huge) but new hams have some advantages too.
To deal with poor solar conditions many hams, in addition to SSB or CW will use FT8 which can get a signal through very poor solar conditions and enable the signal to be picked out of relatively large amounts of noise. While this might not be appealing to some - especially those who prefer free form dialog-like communications - it can be a very interesting way to determine where your rig's signal is reaching. Using PSKreporter you can see where your signal is landing, with what signal strength, around the world. And you can "see who is calling" and from where. Some hams love it, some get tired of it but for a new ham figuring out how digital and RF technology works, it's pretty interesting.
Overall, there are some great synergies between ham radio and many of the electronics topics discussed in these forums. More experience with one (radio or the rest of electronics) will only help with the other. When you set up your first antenna with an antenna analyzer it will be insightful and exciting, and it might be a gateway drug to a spectrum analyzer or maybe a VNA on your bench (or in the field - new inexpensive VNAs are starting to proliferate).
Long story short, study for the exams, work hard to get at least the General license (or whatever the equivalent is in your country that will give you HF/DX privileges), and give it a go. For U.S. operators there is a great site called
HamStudy.org – the site learns what you need help with and it adjusts to help you learn that – it’s the fastest way to prepare for the exams.) In the U.S. once you have the license it's good for 10 years and really forever if you keep renewing. I think regardless of what country you live in what you learn will be interesting and useful, you will meet (in person and via radio) some very interesting people, and you will be adding very practical as well as theoretical RF knowledge to your electronics tool bag. It would be hard in this day and age to think that we aren't headed for more uses of RF, so why not undertake the challenge and opportunity. Being able to transmit around the world is kinda/very neat. Go for it. 73