That's a bit like saying "Playing chess requires no skill at all." You just have to memorize a fairly trivial set of rules of how pieces move. Even if you violate the chess rules you likely still survive the experience, so playing chess is completely about innate ability.

That quote clearly is an attempt by you to contrast skill with ability, and to equate "requires no skill" with "is about innate ability". You can't mean for skill and ability to be synonymous in that.