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No. Your argument is specious. Evolution 'designed' us with all sorts of things 'in mind' that no longer apply. That doesn't mean that any arbitrary aspect of our lives will have an influence if it's changed on any other aspect. If the environmental factors / traits have no relationship with the trait we're interested in, we have no initial reason to think that changing the conditions will affect the trait.
Consider the absurdity of taking your argumentative structure seriously:
"Nature designed us to have full heads of hair. Nature also gave us a sense of sight, which it did not design to operate optimally in hairless conditions. It is therefore reasonable to expect that shaving the head will, to some extent, disrupt our visual acuity."
No, the criticism is valid if we have no reason to think that the traits will be causally linked. You're making another logical fallacy - confusing two statements whose logical structure renders them non-equivalent.
(thinking trait is ~relevant) != ~(thinking trait is relevant)