It’s a matter of context and opportunity.
Leonardo Da Vinchi was a creative, scientific and technological genius. Inventing things like the helicopter, parachute, machine gun, automobile, armored vehicles. His detailed drawings of the heart were used hundreds of years later to perfect advanced surgeries. (Granted it’s for the best that some of those inventions languished for hundreds of years)
None of his inventions found a social or technological environment suitable for them to reach their full potential. 90% of his inventions, discoveries and insights went nowhere during his lifetime.
Einstein was unstructured and might have come to nothing were it not for the help of the woman who would have been his first wife if his racist parents hadn’t intervened. She was sent off to a convent while bearing his child. What happened to her? What happened to the child of two genius physicists?
If we worked harder to offer education and opportunity to everyone, we’d see twice as many Einstein level geniuses.
