Only compared to those who don't meet that bare standard, perhaps.

[It's an idle response. Much of this conversation is an idle response, something easy to engage in while his hands and mind are otherwise occupied. It's not that he's distant, or dismissive; but he isn't really considering whys and wherefores.

[Being an Aurion hardly counted. He's had everything pushed at him his whole life. It'd be hard not to make something of himself, with being given everything he needs to succeed.]