no longer select for the fittest and smartest and instead get people like me

Says who?

Are you a professional athlete? If not then you've already been filtered.

Do you teach engineering at MIT? If not then you've already been filtered.

People are filtered by countless metrics. I am a perfectly normal guy. The kind of guy you'd walk past and forget before I'm even out of your line of sight. I'm a telecommunications engineer by day and volunteer firefighter by night. That doesn't make me better than anyone who isn't. Those are just where my talents lay.

I'm sure you have tons of talents me and the Sherpa would absolutely suck at.

Stop worrying about whatever everyone else is good at. Focus on what you're good at. If you don't know what you're good at keep trying different things until you find it.