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Then the average person is going to have a much harder time attributing proficiency to either of those factors, and it's much more appropriate to just compliment their hard work and dedication.
Why is it more appropriate?
Because it acknowledges something someone worked for rather than something they were born with.
Do you think work is separable from a person's circumstances of birth? Lots of things influence a person's ability to work, chiefly how much money they were born into, but also some people are born with certain abilities that make them more capable of doing work.
Do you think work is more valuable because it somehow comes from a person's character? Is character separable from birth?
And also, what about someone who worked as hard as they could and could only ever achieve a middling career in their chosen field? Do you put their apparent failure down to simply not working hard enough? Do you think that's rude?