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I feel like all you're saying is 'Coding interviews could be great' not 'coding interviews are great'.

Coding interviews are great if the interviewers are perfectly rational and omnipotent agents. They need to be able to perceive the job, derives the set of abilities that is necessary for it taking into account and predicting future changes. Asking the set of questions that will subsequently narrow down the candidate's ability (while understand the answer, obviously). All the while gauging candidate's "social skill" and "team work" ability, among with any and all trending required characteristics there are. Oh, and you got an hour to do that.

You have 5 interviewers going through the same candidate? Fine, they need to be one-fifth omnipotent.

Good luck with that.

That's the theory but it doesn't work in practice. Interviewing other developers is a skill and it's a skill that most developers don't have.

Depends what you mean. If you mean google style whiteboarding coding interviews are great I'm here to tell you they are not. I've never been payed to write code on a whiteboard, have you?