College may not be required if you're sufficiently self motivated, however I still feel that for the majority of ordinary people, college still makes sense.

If you leave aside a field like tech, which has ample resources for those willing to teach themselves, this is simply not true for most other skilled professions

Regulations aside, would you go to a doctor who was self-taught or live in buildings built by architects and engineers who didn't go to college?

Atleast for the STEM fields, I still feel that college should be an absolute requirement.

Of course this is not meant to criticize your choice, just feel that the whole 'brilliant people don't need college' thing is taken a bit too far.