Great topic @zickkie ! I don’t have too much more to add other than learning to draw is, in part, learning how to observe. The muscle memory you won’t necessarily need as a modeler, but the practice of really looking at objects and finding their angles, proportions, volume, and ‘essence’ will be invaluable.
I rarely draw, and I think my 3D work suffers because of it, so I’m working on fixing that.
That said, I’ve been able to do plenty of contract jobs just fine with only basic sketching used for finding compositions and such, so it won’t necessarily hurt your job prospects right now, but I think it’d be very difficult to really master modelling in the long run without it.
Like @baena3d mentioned, you could always focus on other, more technical aspects of 3D as well like rigging or scripting tools if you really dislike drawing and don’t feel like learning it.
