Its not a moot point at all, you are just simplifying it and thus end up creating a strawman no one ever argued.
It's luck in the way that BG happened to be at the right time at the right place as an entire industry exploded.
That does not mean he wasn't skilled, it doesn't mean that anyone could do it. It just means that the success it ended up becoming was not because of Bill Gates but because he happened to sell a product at the right time.
Hadn't he done it, someone else had.
So no its not a moot point unless you make a moot strawman.
It's luck in the way that BG happened to be at the right time at the right place as an entire industry exploded.
That does not mean he wasn't skilled, it doesn't mean that anyone could do it. It just means that the success it ended up becoming was not because of Bill Gates but because he happened to sell a product at the right time.
Hadn't he done it, someone else had.
So no its not a moot point unless you make a moot strawman.