I don’t think it’s overstating it to recognise that in the modern world, it’s a very important factor. When it’s lacking, the only thing which comes close to making up for that lack, even in a bad way, is superior brute force.
It is a tool that can be put to the use of blessing.
Wrongly used, it can become the vehicle of curses.
Hitler was not wicked because he was “low intelligence.”
Watch, once more, for the fallacious conclusion that being intellectually bright equates to being wise. It may be the shovel that digs that much deeper a hole to fall into.