>>34308603A little of column A, a little of column B. I'm someone who has a pretty significant visual disability, and because of this my growth as an artist was always painfully slow, because what is art if not your ability to translate what you see into a canvas? I can study the theory as much as I want; "a body is X heads tall", "perspective is done with x amount of points", "red and yellow mixed will make orange" etc., but if I struggle to see the world around me in the first place, I will struggle to draw it on a piece of paper.
I say this because natural talent is absolutely a factor on how quickly someone can grasp certain concepts, but practice and hard work ultimately can make someone who is less talented be a much better artist/writer/musician than someone who's talented but lazy. Talent is a leg up, no doubt about it, but it's not something that can't be overcome with practice.
Ultimately once you attain mastery, natural talent becomes irrelevant and what ends up setting you apart is your creativity, and how you apply your skills. Even in the art world, some people are much better suited for certain things than others; look at ONE for example and how One Punch Man's original manga is regarded as having "incredible paneling" and yet the art that fills those panels is supbar. Lots of artists are amazing at coloring, but once you put their knowledge of anatomy to the test you start seeing some fucked up shit.
Being a "legend" is equal parts talent, hard word and luck, to be honest. Luck always plays a factor. Just because you find it hard to match up doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. The world is literally inhabited by mediocre people, there's no shame in being another one of them.