There is another thing with Schumacher. He left worlds best team (Benneton)¸and went to very bad one at the time (Ferrari). He worked hard with it and brought it up to ultimate winners.
So he had his share of hard time.
Exactly. If you want to be people champion there need to be some amount of trials and tribulations involved too. As this is how people live their lives. But obviously you have to still be the best at what you do.
Even though Roglič had a much longer way towards great success, he was not very popular at all. People didn't like his interviews (they were really bad), he never said much and he kept winning a lot. He became much more popular after 2020 TdF when he got destroyed and took it like a man, even though he probably cried himself to sleep that day (and couple after). Since then, he kept winning and also kept crashing. Sigh. You have to love him for that. Why not, eh?
He likely wept as a baby. Like i did too. I took it much less gracefully.