I know enough people who e.g. got jobs at Google with philosophy degree

Sure, but that's evidence that they are unusually smart people. That's not evidence that four years of college were useful for them.

As you probably know, there is a school of thought that treats college education as mostly signaling. Companies are willing to hire people from, say, the Ivies, because these people proved that they are sufficiently smart (by getting into an Ivy) and sufficiently conscientious (by graduating). What they learned during these four years is largely irrelevant.

Is four years of a "modernized liberal arts curriculum" the best use of four years of one's life and a couple of hundred thousand dollars?