According to the Pew study, 1 out of 6 college grads felt that college wasn't worth it. That is a substantial enough fraction for me to conclude that "College isn't for everyone, even everyone who can manage to go in the current environment." is a rational statement.

There is no reason for someone who loves a craft or a trade to feel that they should have to go to a traditional college, when an apprenticeship or technical certificate would serve them as well without creating a mountain of debt. I can think of three men in my immediate circle of friends who are all more than moderately gifted (SB-LM IQs range from 167-185) and who loved machines and mechanical work, and chose to be automotive mechanics. One turned down a full college scholarship to go into the military with a mechanic MOS. One chose to go through one of the most rigorous automotive technical programs in the country. The third went to college, got a BA in Psychology in two years, and then got out and went back to working on cars for a living. All eventually became ASE certified Master Mechanics. None of them regretted going into a trade. The one who went to college regretted acquiring debt to pay for knowledge that he could have acquired for free in the library in his spare time.

My father was a phenomenal cabinet maker. He learned his trade working beside his father and grandfather. He graduated high school with a Regent's diploma, and could have gone to college out of high school - but what would a Bachelor's degree have done for him, besides take him out of his craft for four years? He eventually did get an Associate's degree in his forties, when the technical school where he had been teaching cabinetry and woodworking for five years decided that all of their faculty had to have at least an AS. It was the most ridiculous exercise I had ever seen. He didn't learn a thing, and it just wasted his time and money.

If you are going to argue that "College is for everyone.", a single counterexample is sufficient to disprove that assertion.