Maybe not a developer job, but for jobs that actually require public presentations asking candidates to give a talk on some topic seems very reasonable. And, yeah, if they fumbled through it that would be mark down if that's something they'll do as a job.

Writing may be more important, but presentation skills are absolutely important for some jobs involving communications.

I don't understand this mentality at all. If I'm hiring you to do X, I want some sort of confirmation that you can actually perform X. What's the alternative? Hiring the first person who applies?

Hiring the way hospitals hire doctors.

I don't know, do they have them dissect other species while explaining their though process?

The vital difference is that doctors have doctorates. Becoming a doctor is an incredibly rigorous process and you can be confident that anyone who is a doctor is competent. You don't need a demonstration of their skills.

Any shmuck can spend a week on leetcode and call themselves a programmer. There needs to be a way to sort out that type of applicant in a field where so many are 'self taught'