Even this is fascinating topic, but we can't take this long here usually peoples love to have challenging skills or hard skills because they feel these will give them better source of income even much time we have things which are having no challenge.
Still give better way of life because they are helping as well always trying to stay with technical or having things which are looking tough not works due to having mindset we stay we need creativity which is not skill, it's natural and this is surely can bring better changes with having some guides because it's always important for everyone to have things as he can use his mind in better way.
I do agree with the part about soft skills, I used to work at a company, and I mostly did nothing because my job was boring and just required me to work for an hour and yet I was there for 8 hours, but over course of years I became someone who has been there for the longest time, which meant that I knew how everything worked, while everyone else was either new, or at least newer than me.
So whenever a problem happened, like whenever things didn't go according to plan, they came to me for help and ask me what they have to do in that case, it didn't matter if it was work time, or 3 am middle of the night, I was asked even before the owner, and I helped, never backed down (except the 3 am one lol) and that's a soft skill, I didn't know what to do, I just knew what previous people did, and told me, never did it myself, I just told people what I was told and they actually were the ones who did it. I think these type of people are required in every company if you ask me.