Most parents insist on kids going to uni specifically to get a job. If you can get the same knowledge for free (assuming you have to pay for uni), then what's the value?
The value is in guided discussions, meetings with your professors, comments on your papers and code, making friends as you finally begin to understand difficult material together in the library in the middle of the night, and 4 years of living in an environment with an anomalously high signal to noise ratio of smart people throwing 100% effort into their collective intellectual growth.
Uni never should have catered to the massive demand of skilled workers, leave it to the eternal academics I say...
Just know that it's not only for a job. Universities have been around for a long time and have served many great and noble purposes.