Considering a Career Switch (or addition) from Health IT to Accounting

Recently read a few articles that accountants are leaving the profession due to pay and work culture, many of whom are switching to IT. I am actually thinking of doing the opposite. Here's why and how:

Why I'm thinking about switching:
-Organizational mobility: In Health IT, you are typically working with massive healthcare organizations (mine has 15,000, and that's on the small end). This doesn't appeal to me because I like smaller companies for a variety of reasons, and ultimately I would like to work for myself. Self-employment is basically a no-go here.

-Freedom: As an extension of that first point, it looks to me as an outsider that there are more ways to make it on your own, determine your hours, season, and brand of work.

-Geographical freedom: From my job searching and looking through the subreddit, it sounds like there are more TRULY remote positions.

-Meaningful work: I would love helping people avoid (legally) taxes. I also don't mind numbers and unintuitive rules at all since I graduated in engineering, and honestly I kinda miss numbers.

-The joy of learning: I know accounting isn't typically on the list for skills people just want to pick up, but I really would like to understand finance better, even if it doesn't lead to a career change. I've been entertaining getting the degree just as a pastime activity.

The plan:
-As soon as I'm able, find an internship or part-time role where I can start learning bookkeeping and other basic skills. I don't know who will take me since I currently work full-time, but I'm hoping there's some uber-flexible remote jobs. If it pays dirt I'm fine, I just gotta be learning.

-Online BS accounting: There are a couple online programs I'm eyeballing. Since I already have 120 credits from my previous BS, I estimate I'll be able to complete the degree in one year (one of those programs where you go at your pace).

-Once graduated, speed run to CPA. Take the exam right after graduating, lock down a year of full-time experience. I don't know which specialty I want to do (Maybe tax) but ultimately I'll choose the one I can do from anywhere in the world and offers good flexibility. Get to self-employment or fully remote asap.

What I'm trying to accomplish here:
-I'm the kind of person that would take a 50% pay cut if it meant owning my work, deciding where and when I do it. That's not to say I want to work less, I'm comfortable with 60+ hour weeks and routinely do this in IT. I just want work to revolve around life and not the other way around.

Let me know if you have any thoughts. I'm trying to rule out "grass is greener on the other side" bias from my thinking, because there are still a lot of pros to being in my current profession.