It bothers me when anomalies related to IQ and relative ability are so readily dismissed as a discrepancy of “talent” as if hand-waving towards some black box p

It bothers me when anomalies related to IQ and relative ability are so readily dismissed as a discrepancy of “talent” as if hand-waving towards some black box provides any substantive meaning. Do we really understand talent, or is it just indicative of shortcomings in our current methods of measuring intelligence?