Rand said her writing was intended to show "man as he might be and ought to be". She was not interested in showing how the fellow next door lived...lots of writers do that.
As for talentless, I suppose that is in the eye of the beholder as there are few ways to measure talent 'objectively'. She sold a lot of books and still sells hundreds of thousands a year 20 years after her death.
Them's fightin' words pardner. . .