The title is a bit misleading (I first though it would be about prioritising college education over toy projects) but appart from that, the article is pretty good at explaining the situation that exploded since COVID: "Easy financial freedom".
Nowadays, every influencers are pitching for it, you open TikTok or Instagram and see all the same images and clip from Dubai.
In the end, education stay, for the better or the worse (I mainly learned by myself), the best way to validate skills and get a job, especially in those times with massive layoffs allovers industries.