If people who had to study for the LSAT, or MCAT, or countless other high-intensity selection processes realized that we sat around bitching about LeetCode interviews as the only obstacle to making more annually than some of them ever do, oy vey…
In the cases you mention, there is usually years of study (much longer than a CS degree) coupled with the fact that those exams you mention are meant to qualify a person to help save another persons life or their rights under law, not to optimize ad-reach by an additional tenth of a percent
But that's the point of the last part - some programming jobs still pay more and you only need leetcode.
What is the point of this comment? No process should be discussed or improved as long as some other comparable but worse process exists elsewhere in the world? We should hold a moment of silence for the lawyers at the start of any posting about hiring practices in tech?