"overrated" implies an estimate of rating that diverges from the actual baseline. For this, we have to know how people rate grit in importance. There is pendul

"overrated" implies an estimate of rating that diverges from the actual baseline. For this, we have to know how people rate grit in importance. There is pendulum where for a few years people will have "under estimated" intelligence, or patience, or genetics, or friends, or parents. These articles come out, and suddenly everyone "overrates" those factors to the detriment of others. Then the article moves on to the underrated factor. Unless people are actually ascribing various quantities to these factors, I don't know how "under" or "over" the estimates are from the actual influence of the factors.