You can only do so much in a limited span of time. Each person has to optimize for what they hold important. Not going to college was the best thing that ever

You can only do so much in a limited span of time. Each person has to optimize for what they hold important. Not going to college was the best thing that ever happened to my career. I got to spend my "college years" optimizing for business, which put me miles ahead of my peers who went to school. I now earn significantly more and get to work on more interesting projects (by my metric, at least) than my friends who even have PhDs in the field. But that came with a cost. I missed out on a lot of non-career qualities by not having the college experience. I don't feel either direction is wrong, you just have to choose which is more important to you.