No, you're not. It's natural to think that we'd be better suited to this task at full power. Certainly, there's more to it than that - but given what we know, we can't say.

[without magic, there's still a host of things he can do, talents he refined over the years. it was a unique struggle before them.]

...What would your king want you to do, you think?

[Merlin could give him an answer, but he wants Bedivere to think - to come up with his own solution.]