> Experience has shown that, things rarely work out in the long-term if you aim to have a successful career without a degree or by skirting coding interviews. Lacking these skills in the current conditions might be career-ending.

Perhaps your experience is unique and not at all representative. This reads very out touch.

Edit. Here's some data.. none of which indicates "rarely works out".

SO survey 2025:

20% of respondants who were professionally coding did not have a 4 year degree. Only 17% of all respondants said they learned to code from school.

SO survey 2017:

> The remaining 20.9% said they had majored in other fields such as business, the social sciences, natural sciences, non-computer engineering, or the arts.

> Of current professional developers, 32% said their formal education was not very important or not important at all to their career success. This is not entirely surprising given that 90% of developers overall consider themselves at least somewhat self-taught: a formal degree is only one aspect of their education, and so much of their practical day-to-day work depends on their company’s individual tech stack decisions.