There's this delusion that the younger you start the better and quicker they'll get some things which is why 3yo kindies are a thing. This may even be true in some cases but in general I don't think it makes too much of a difference, sometimes you're just not going to get things til you're ready to get things no matter what (and in a low amount of cases that might be never). Like at our club we had kids who started in Tiny Tots (basically if they can at least crawl, but most of them were toddling) and one that started in high school (never done gym or dance or anything related before) that was almost as good or better.
Also dance is still technically a sport. I have had many, many arguments about male dancers and male gymnasts being stronger and fitter and better coordinated than footy players XD
She looks so freaking adorable in the fox gear XD
In fairness to you, there's only so much you want to narrow into. Like J is a software engineer, but he also gets bored very easily and needs new things to do and new problems to solve semi-regularly. His current role seems to have that as they moved him from contract to permanent to not lose him and he hasn't bounced yet (he has bounced a few other jobs after a few years as they stagnated), and at this stage in his career he's at a point where people are calling him as he has remained varied in what he can do, apparently in that field it's not uncommon for people to niche themselves so hard they become exceptional at their niche and can't/won't do much of anything outside of it, which he sees as limiting options a bit too much.
I think there is "too skilled" though it came with "too smart", I have met a couple of people like that and we all playfully thought that it was unfair that they had hoarded all the smarts and not shared it out with everyone else XD Only one of them was lazy and relied entirely on their smarts to get them through life though, no idea what happened to them, the rest were just very drivenm, motivated people who were very curious about everything and wanted to try everything. I guess if you want something badly enough you will find ways to be able to do it.
If smallsteps has the time to think (which a lot of schoolkids don't seem to have, or at least that's the conclusion I've drawn purely from observation) she might arrive at the same conclusion as 18yo drew when he decided he wanted to discuss his upbringing with me a few days after his 18th birthday, in being generally happy with her childhood and how you did things (there will always be at least one thing that she thinks you should have done differently, but as long as it was good in general). And I think when/if she talks to you about it in 12-13 years that will be the case.