Is Deliberate Practice hyped

Stumbled on to a paper titled, “Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?” that takes a hard look at the much talked about and written about principle of deliberate practice. Indeed there has a been cottage industry of books/ blogs/ articles that seem to propagate that “only practice matters and nothing else”. The paper does some number crunching and concludes that the whole idea might be a fancy thing just caught on. Yes, the authors who wrote about it and talked about it have made fortunes. But does it really deliver ? Reading the paper does give one a dose of reality check.