I think a lot of what you're speaking to is the result of people undervaluing liberal arts degrees.

I work in a technical role, but I have a liberal arts degree. Liberal arts helped me learn how to think, learn new things, synthesize different things into a coherent argument, and more. People ask how I RCA problems so quickly. It's because I'm used to taking a set of facts from pile A, another from pile B, etc. and bring it together to a cogent argument.

Meanwhile I'm interviewing people with CS degrees who can't even explain the difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption.