Yes, it is a huge outlier. Probably the most extreme outlier there is.
> Plenty of people go into a PhD to go into industry
In CS? Yes. In most other fields? Absolutely not.
I work at a small unassuming civil engineering company and we have plenty of PhD's here. Within most areas of science and engineering I'd say that getting a PhD because you want to go onto industry is the norm rather than the exception.
Yes, it is a huge outlier. Probably the most extreme outlier there is.
> Plenty of people go into a PhD to go into industry
In CS? Yes. In most other fields? Absolutely not.