A real-life example of the importance of education and qualifications is to look at the world's leading corporations today. Except for founders like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates, they do not have college degrees but they are people who have studied at the most prestigious schools in the world. Meanwhile, most of the remaining CEOs of large corporations have high education and degrees.
For example, Tim Cook, he has a master's degree from Duke University and a bachelor's degree from Auburn University. Or Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who also graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree from Stanford University...I have never seen anyone without a degree and only skills who can take up important positions in corporations and companies.

It can be said that education and degrees are still extremely important in today's age. Only short-sighted people look down on degrees and think that skills alone are enough.