Aye - I don’t tend to have a problem honestly with “classic” lc tests. I tend to take issue with uncommon/nuanced Dynamic Programming questions and clever uses of binary search. Both of these categories tend to rely on the engineer knowing the “trick” of the particular question.

Perhaps I'm naive, but I suspect that hiring based on a candidates ability to produce optimal solutions to LC Hards will bias strongly towards candidates who can't code, but are very good at interviewing.