Thanks for the gold kind stranger! If anyone is interested in reading full article or other data-based blogs on sports and chess you can find the article here:
Yes it is this. The average evaluation change for opening is much smaller, there are just lots of pretty good options so matching exactly what computer recommends is hard.
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Yes that inspired me