Your quote doesn&#x27;t live up to your straw man. The quote is essentially pointing out a specific bias and making the point that fabricating a counterfactual will take the bias of the fabricator because you can make things turn out however you like when you&#x27;re rewriting history. Her talent is speculation based on kind words by family members. Claiming that she had &quot;no talent&quot; presumably goes too far the other way, but the point being made has merit even if the delivery is overly exaggerated.<p>Notably absent is any claim that women in the 18th century were treated other than terribly. It is possible and indeed highly likely both that women were treated unfairly and also that Wolfgang&#x27;s sister would not have rivaled him as a composer, as there are only a small handful of people living or dead who ever have.