As always of course, it depends on your aspirations. If you are sure you are going to be happy for the rest of your working life being a hands-on engineer, then good for you

I have to disagree with this statement, basically because it is wrong.
If you go down the route of getting licensed, you will not spend the rest of your life in overalls. Unless, like me you choose to. Once you have you licence all sorts of opportunities open up both in the practical side and on the “office based” side of things. I have L.A.E. friends who have gone on to Maintenance control, quality, and development. I have friends who have contracted all over the world and I have a friend who chucked it All in and became a teacher!
On the other hand two of my graduate friends have had to leave the industry completely because there is no work out there.
Getting a degree after getting a licences is a common occurrence but becoming an L.A.E after getting a degree is very rare.

Rgds Cking