No, I’m saying that there is no need to force people to study humanities in college. Most other countries in the world don’t do that, because they assume students know by then what they are good at and want to study. And those countries don’t seem to be worse off for that choice.
Those students who want to study humanities should do so, those who don’t shouldn’t be required to. Neither is a waste of time or money if you can (and are motivated to) use the time to demonstrate deeper understanding of a specific academic subject. And hopefully your course will teach you a bunch of skills (of whatever sort) that will be useful after college.
I don’t think one should assume that requiring a student who would prefer to do more math to take humanities courses (or vice versa) is the preferred solution, since many students will just do the minimum necessary and choose the easiest possible courses to satisfy their GEs.
What I find ironic is that some top colleges like Brown have an “open” curriculum where you can actually specialize and avoid humanities (or math) if you don’t find that interesting. Indeed UVA promote this as one of the “benefits” of their Echols scholarship for top students. Why would they do that if they believed taking a cross section of humanities and science courses in college was so important? It only makes sense if they think top students don’t need to be forced into more formal instruction because they will gain enough knowledge of the humanities (or math for that matter) from the combination of what they learned in high school and what they will learn informally or by pursuing their interests.