What does it mean to be a designer? Based on your other answers it seems you talk about outliers. The best of our industry. To become one of these you need natural talent.

Talent makes things easier and determines your maximum potential, but you don’t need it to become an average designer. You can be hard-working without talent with right attitude and you will succeed in our industry. You will be able to produce work people will like and you will get paid for it, and it same for any professions.

Most people are not hard-working, and they don’t have the righ attitude. It is the main reason they fail and very often they also miss teachers and mentors.

Steven wrote there is scientific evidence that suggest there is an amalgam of genetic factors. I would like to see the evidence.

That might be true if you want to be Einstein, but is designing rocket science?

Out of curiosity, can you share the evidence you have in mind?

What seperates a doctor from a janitor if not experience? Do you think designers are born with talent and either you have it or not?

Most people will be overprotective because they think what they do is unique and only a few selected people can do it, but the truth is with enough practice anyone can be anything. You might not be the best, but you can be better than average.

Majority of people don't care about their performance, and it is the main reason they don't achieve mastery.

We need more courses to support such endeavours. If you want to start to design, it is much harder in my opinion.

Is it built with web technologies like Figma or is it native as Sketch?