Agree. If you interview at AAA you aren’t real PhD. Waste of money and schools should fail people on comps that have no hope at top tier research schools. That way the get masters degree and become lecturers at $90k a year teaching 3/3 load.
You give a PhD to a person that can’t do research, then you have lazy overpaid person that acts like a diva with nothing to back it up. It’s a problem.