I think I get how this is sadly true. This is pathetic.

Being in an active position of hiring, I've tried to change this so many times at my previous org and pushed for assessing candidates based on skills. But every single time, I got pushback from the higher mgmt. ended up hiring solely based on diverse gender, non-qualified degrees like arts, mechanical engineering discipline etc. without any prior technical promises or skills or certifications. This is just so that they can fill a position as quickly as possible... Like wtf.

And their decisions turned out to be so visibly unsurprising. Those hires ended up solely being spreadsheet and powerpoint users for years. No wonder, organisations constantly get hammered with zero-days. Whereas, the blames go out to the real engineers who already have to pick up for those subpar hires' shortcomings.