I don’t knock those jobs.
I knock the absence of affordable vocational educational opportunities for kids who are not “college material” (i.e. not Cornell Hotel school students). Does someone need 60K in student loans (parents plus the kids) for a hotel training program?
I worked in a retail training program out of college which had both kids with BA degrees and kids from vocational retail management programs. Those retail management programs still exist- but they are marketed as “Post Bac” type programs.