But the solutions shown in this series are just pointlessly esoteric. I'm not actually sure what the point of this series is.
Like music/art/religion/gourmet-cooking/morris-dancing/synchronized-swimming.
If it's "your thing", it's _wonderful_. It might not be your thing, and that's fine too.
If you're exclusively a bro-country fan, you probably don't appreciate jazz or classical - and that's OK, I hope you get immense joy from your bro-country music.
But that's not necessarily what interviewing is all about. Type-level programming is cool but wildly inappropriate for most jobs - that's part of the humor.
You are not your job, or your resume, or your ability to pass an interview. There are all sorts of ways people can be elite that are mostly orthogonal to a particular job.