I'd take a moment for an actual piece of advice. In your life like 80% of the skills you need are communication and "not being an ass" skills. Technical skills are great but being a good communicator is far better.

This should be a Venn diagram with zero overlap, lol

This is a case of the streetlight effect. Evaluating the skills needed to do the job is very difficult in an interview setting, so most of the focus going on evaluating skills that are easy to evaluate in an interview (such as people skills).

It isn't wrong, as all else being equal it is still better to hire the person with better skills that you can measure but obviously is not a strong evaluation of candidate quality.