This may be true, but does that mean they didn't benefit from a STEM education, either because of the skills they learned, or the signaling value? I used to be

This may be true, but does that mean they didn't benefit from a STEM education, either because of the skills they learned, or the signaling value? I used to be a lawyer, and it was generally accepted that a student who had a STEM major would be given more leniency on GPA than other students. This was because of the perceived rigor of STEM disciplines. Applicants who were looking to work in patent law would get a boost since they would presumably know some things relevant patent cases they would be assigned to, and I don't know if this article would consider 'patent litigator' to be a STEM job. I do think that the STEM push has been a bit overdone at times, but we should still consider that people who majored in STEM may still have benefited from their degrees because it allowed them to stand out, and to learn things that are useful in some jobs that may not be considered 'STEM jobs'.