We have many people at work with said 'soft skills' and they happen to also be the people that can't do the actual technical work.  Not everyone sits around a board room table massaging each others feelings and I doubt the LinkedIn VP cares about the "soft skills" of the guy fixing his car, he want's competence.  This is where this entire nonsense falls apart, in trades the dudes with the 'soft skills' are almost always incompetent, con men and sometimes both.  I can't see how it would be any different in business.   We handed women the education industry decades ago, this is what you get.