One needs to be a (long term present) parent to understand these subtleties.

You also hear just the success stories which are often extremely marginal, when such approach wouldn't fit development curve of some other potential genius we would not be hearing their less successful story, would we.

Not diminishing the overall message, in 80s even in western democracies deeper info was not so readily available so its not like his parents just threw him wifi-connected tablet with wikipedia opened and that was it.

But I think what should be celebrated more is some proper hard long term effort and not just usual approach with exceptional results.