I am doing a PhD in natural language processing coming from an undergrad study Literature and Linguistics, and I can relate. I gave up on the humanities very early on because of the blind activism in research and the classroom at the cost of methodology. I moved into NLP and ML research.

One literary history professor put it blatantly and honestly when talking about teaching in the humanities: "Academia for us is a way to instill our ideology in the elite of society." More propaganda than science. I too hope the appreciation of empiricism gets better with the (re-)introduction of data-driven and computational methods.