[username90]

It is much more common to over value social skills than to under value them though, as you are biased in favour of those you like. At some point someone has to produce something of value, and having tons of people around whose only good quality are their great social skills doesn't help, they are leeches in that scenario and their social skills makes them hard to remove. They create similar inefficiency problems as the people who lack social skills entirely and sit on their own writing a huge messy system only they understand. Replacing competent people with likeable people is a common way for companies to rot.

(I know you said soft skills, but the poster you responded to talked about stuff closer to social skills than soft skills.)