As someone who hires a ton of engineers, I wholeheartedly disagree with this.

I actually really like this concept. The main benefit is that this approach allows a more conversational interview and also allows to cover a broader range of real-world problems.

There is almost 0 correlation between candidates ability to be effective collaborator and their ability to solve leet code problems. The former is a lot more important to us than your ability to chew out code.