Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

"anyone can learn to do it" "Higher than average IQ and passionate interest is all that's needed"

Yes, because "I can't perform the basic mental operations integral to what x *is*, but I have a passion for x" is incoherent. Passion requires some basic degree of ability. If you're arguing you can leverage a lot from there, I agree. But not everyone has even that to start with.

Possibly, but they can’t exercise that meta-skill arbitrarily. You cannot just yell at someone “make your brain do the thing that makes you understand this!” and expect magic to happen.

Translating very direct instructions into a particular syntax is probably something that can be taught to anyone. "Write an if-else statement in Python that..." Sure. "Solve Fizzbuzz without having someone else do it for you" is much trickier, and you don't practice for it.