If you look at the thread history, you’ll see that the many posts comparing unit counts at different colleges have never had anything to do with outcomes. You are the only one who seems to have made this assumption.
The comparisons began when a poster claimed that Caltech and MIT required more non-STEM core courses than Chicago. There was a difference of opinion about which college had the more rigorous core, which led to more detailed analysis of counts in different fields of study, including full totals rather than just core. As stated earlier, my take was, “While taking classes outside of their primary field of study is unsettling for some students, I’d expect that the most rigorous and challenging courses at all of these schools were typically upperclassmen advanced classes, rather than intro freshman core classes. So I don’t think looking at intro freshman general ed requirements alone is a good way to evaluate rigor of the respective colleges.”
I am not claiming that one college is better than the other – only that they seem to have different major requirements. In at least CS (the only major that is popular at all of the discussed schools). Stanford seems to place relatively more emphasis on in-major CS/Eng/Math courses, while Chicago seems to place relatively more emphasis on out-of-major non-STEM core. I can see why the different styles of each school would appeal to different types of students.