Your comment comes off as "hire a person because you get along with them, don't worry if they can't write a function that accomplishes a simple task".
In my experience, companies using this style of interviewing are actually incapable through process of hiring the type of people that are qualified and experienced enough to know that this process is bullshit. I.e. the type of people that have 0 need to drop down on their knees and beg for the job. Leaders, not followers. It's a problem. If you want to hire the best, insulting them with a silly coding interview is not a great way to do it. Companies like this self select into hiring people that at best are as good as what they already have. It's the old A's hire A's, B's hire C's kind of thing.
The solution is to trust your people more to take good decisions rather than allowing them to defer to some HR process. The process at the startup I run is very simple. We don't subject people to coding interviews. If you pass our initial filters (CV screen and common sense), you first talk to somebody senior enough to make a good judgment call. Anyone recommended by anyone we care about gets priority. We trust our people to have good judgment. Big companies hide behind process because they don't trust their people to have good judgment and/or their people don't want to take the responsibility for having good judgment. Both are bad. I don't want such people in my company. It works. We get some amazing people walking in through the front door that are actually excited about working for us.
No. He is simply saying the current interview only focuses on LC above all else. And should focus on soft skills as well among other things. You took his argument and flipped it 180 and went to the other extreme end. It's false dichotomy.
If you feel the need to separately establish that they can actually code, take your pick of GitHub, fizzbuzz, etc. You're probably doing one of these before the LC round anyway.
Somebody who can't use the chat tools no longer meets the bar
ChatGPT isn't an artificial general intelligence. You can't tell it about a bug and expect it to 1) understand it, 2) come up with a solution.
So you have to actually know what you're doing.