[akudha]

everyone takes it and it loses its value

I don't know about this part. Years ago, my friend in college was taking all kinds of Microsoft certification exams and passing them with near perfect score. Thing is, he had no clue about most of the topics he passed, he had never worked with those tech. He just spent a bunch of time collecting questions (which wasn't that hard to find) and memorizing the answers. They could've made it difficult enough so just rote memorization wouldn't work, but they didn't (don't know if it has changed now).

Companies had long figured out these certifications are just easy money. It is hard to resist the temptation to just charge hundreds of dollars for a test and add it as a "profit center"

[horsawlarway]

Yes - and I've never met anyone in the last 20+ years that actually treats those certifications as worth more than the paper they're printed on.

They might still be able to scam folks into taking the test, but the test itself has essentially no meaningful value in industry.

Personally - I see "Agile certifications" as the same thing but from the last decade.

[potato3732842]

The tech industry, where just about everyone is capable of cleaving off aspects of a problem and reasoning whether those aspects apply to the general case do not just fail to apply serious scrutiny to certification and licensing schemes in other fields but tend to actively go out on limbs to defend them.

I don't know what that says but it sure says something.