The Secret of Love

[Achebe]

People would be better off
admitting

they're just not very good
at it

Hi 71 - I'm a big fan of your work otherwise   .... but I thought this piece was too long winded to be the aphorism that you're probably aiming for.
I dislike 'people would be better off' for 'people would' and 'be better' - maybe it's just me, but I don't think those word pairings sound nice. I also don't get the point of the line endings and the gap.
Perhaps one with fewer words would be some variant of:

Everybody's better off admitting
they're not very good at it.

but I still can't help thinking 'so what' to that?