for most people the success bottleneck isn't rationality.
Instrumental rationality is more or less defined as "doing whatever you need to in order to succeed". If success requires e.g. networking, instrumental rationality would tell you to improve your networking ability.
For epistemic rationality I agree, it's not a common bottleneck.
The question whether luck is a skill is an interesting question :-)
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