Design Heavy streams of ECE

Hey everyone, I've just been accepted into a T50 global school for ECE where im from (Canada) but i'm having a hard time accepting the offer. I've also gotten an offer from a normal school that has a general first year with gauranteed placement in whatever stream second year and I don't know which one I want to choose.

I really enjoy the physics of circuits but i've been told by friends and family that most EE/CE jobs are coding which i really hate. I was thinking of doing mechanical since it's more design but sadly the window to apply has closed, and I don't enjoy newtonian physics as much.

Are there any streams on ECE that are similar to the designing done in mechanical. I was thinking pcb design but I saw a post on the EE sub where some guy made a tool to just design pcb's for you so i'm not too sure about that anymore.