entry-level jobs require a degree it doesn't matter if experience > degree because no-one has the former without the latter
Again, that's a bit of an oversimplification, isn't it? Firstly, there's many ways to get experience without a job. In a large amount of fields, personal projects are an option. You can go see stuff every day on /r/videos of people building their own drones / quadrocopters (or similar robots), posts on /r/Entrepreneur of people launching side hustle businesses or android apps, and similar. Just a couple weeks ago I saw a video of a guy who built a touchscreen mirror than ran Android -- it played music, videos, reported the weather, etc. Sending that video in your portfolio is way more hire-able than an engineering degree. There's examples of this in almost every field, with definite exceptions. It's pretty damn hard to get experience without a job in something like the law or medical field (see: Suits). I'll totally give you that. However, even for those industries, there's a massive internship (or residency, for medical specifically) market, and while it requires work and hustle (duh), it's a little absurd to claim that all the entry level jobs require experience. Looking at jobs as the only medium to acquire experience is a really one-dimensional, uncreative way of looking at it. I've heard a figure that something like 90% jobs available aren't listed on traditional job boards (can't source that figure, I'm using it as baseless hyperbole as an example), and instead are given to people that the recruiter / company knows, or are referred to. Basically, networking is way bigger than people give it credit for. Taking into account the "people factor" when getting a job will get you way farther than just spamming your resume out and wondering why no one wants to hire a faceless degree.
Networking, hustle, and personal projects go a lot farther than certifications and degrees. No one is going to hand you a job, and the majority of people who complain about entry level jobs requiring experience are either 1) exaggerating / being sensational or 2) have done very little work to actually prepare themselves to provide value to the market, and for some reason think that a degree entitles them to a job. Or both.
There's also a ton of confirmation bias. Tons of people out there are quietly hustling away in their self started marketing agencies / ecomm businesses / copywriting firms / etc. You don't hear them complaining, because they're too busy living a happy passionate life doing what they love to go on the internet to whine about how they didn't get what they "deserved".
TLDR: Personal Projects / Networking & Connections will take you way, way farther than a degree will. Being even slightly creative in your endeavors will make you stand out.