Yes this. By their nature these things miss out the personal experience bit. I know two women who opted to give birth at home for their first child. Neither of them are stupid, they both did their research and decided the added comfort and reduced medicalisation outweighed the extra risk. They were both lucky enough to have no complications and found birth a more positive experience than several other women I know, who had a horrible time in hospital. Including one who still had to wait for an ambulance and be transferred because the hospital she was in couldn't perform the necessary intervention.

By which I mean that if we rely on people's gut feelings and personal experience, we get a story based entirely on who is in our sample.