I know it’s human nature to want to draw conclusions, but I distrust straight-line projections when we only have two data points. - Charles E. Gannon

Your arrogant self-importance is complicating your perception of what is a very simple matter.

Riordan surveyed the scene again. Knowing that it could not be other than perfect made it seem less remarkable, much in the way a constructed vista in a theme park could never quite compare with a less perfect one discovered in nature. This was merely a technological achievement, and the price of its perpetual perfection was its inability to inspire a sense of grandeur.

Weiner-Kutkh waved airily. “I seem to have been born lucky.”
“Said every cheater who’s ever lived,” Caine retorted.