The point is that Strade was decided by skill and Roubaix by a puncture, so the claim about the relative importance of skills and luck is not well supported by our most recent evidence.I must have missed the part where half the skills of cobbles equates to zero skills on the gravel.
I also must have missed the part where double the punctures on the gravel means there are no punctures on the cobbles.
Obviously n=2 is not a huge sample size, but let's not pretend the initial claim had any kind of data backing it up either.