The reason why I doubt Paolini has enough life experience to write well is because he so so painfully ignorant in how he portrays these things.

I think it's less that he's painfully ignorant and more that he's painfully incurious if that makes sense. The thing between Talia & Pushkin didn't show that Paolini made any real effort to engage with the subject. Someone can be wrong and still have something interesting to say if they did the work to try and understand and try to learn more.

But it's like he doesn't care to know more, and therefore didn't learn more.

I don't mean to belabor the maddentide point, I'm just very salty about the chapter name having no meaning whatsoever. To my way of thinking chapter names should have two meanings: The one the reader expects when the chapter starts, and the one the chapter actually is once its read. Sometimes these can be the same thing. If we write a chapter where the protagonist is one of six champions fighting a single person who is handily defeating all of them, we can call the chapter "Dreadnought" and the reader will understand the significance. If we called the chapter "Ham sandwich" that's just fricking unhelpful.