The vast majority of accidents are due to a poor decision making process not because the pilot had marginal physical flying skills. I prefer someone with good judgement over the best "natural" pilot. When we start seeing accident reports stating things like PIC could not hover or PIC failed to perform an autorotation backwards I will worry about natural skills. But as long as we keep seeing things like PIC flew into IMC and CFIT and PIC ran into cables at 50 feet off the deck, I will take the good brain over the swift stick.
But back to the point, anyone can learn to fly either via the military or private training route. However, neither of the two methods can rewire the brain. We are what we are.