Good post. Thanks for that.
I tended to do the "Historical Interview" one. In my case, it worked well.
I think take-home tests are probably damn near worthless, these days. People will just feed the assignment into an LLM, and return the results.
I am not a fan of LeetCode, because I don't want to waste time, studying stuff that won't have any relevance to what needs to get done. I like to keep my dance card full, and wasting precious time to make someone else happy, isn't my idea of a good time.
That said, I understand why they are there. I just feel that they aren't really something that I'd use to judge senior-level talent; which was what I used to hire.