Well, yes.
My point is Darwin was not all that on the ball.
Nor were any of these social elites of Europe who argued things in their elitist shells. It’s kind of like today.
They all ignored Mendel because he was a nobody.
And they didn’t have the curiosity and didn’t really have the understanding if they did pay some attention to Mendel’s findings.
Darwin’s importance to biology is quite exaggerated and this is a newer phenomenon.