I hadn't thought about guitar adaptations like these possibly being as old as that! You have a whole different level of effort and mastery than my involvement with music. I have sometimes wished I could play the Piano, regarding them as more versatile than guitar, but your playing reinforces the sense that if anything's holding me back, it's actually my technical limitations, and very casual approach to practise ;)
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It's all about what your interested in doing at the time. When I started playing, I started playing because all I wanted to do was classical guitar (I didn't have a lot of friends in high school hahaha). It wasn't that hard to figure out where I needed to start, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do. The physical difficulty of the instrument is actually quite minuscule and it is very versatile, however you are right that a piano is a bit more versatile. People have been playing with the approximate technique now called classical guitar for a very long time in Spain. Francisco Tarrega and Fernando Sor were just two of a litany of amazing guitarists and composers that lived over 200 years ago. Even Vivaldi played a little guitar. It's definitely my favorite instrument. It has the accuracy and some abilities that a piano has, but also the heart and soul that a violin can have. It's not very hard to learn any of it, however it is time consuming. You can't learn more than one note at a time, or one technique at a time. It's an art of patience more than ability, but I think it's super worth the time!
Vivaldi played guitar... well I don't expect many people know that!
I also think that personal characteristics play a part. My hands/fingers just aren't consistently accurate, my handwriting has always been pretty bad, and even forming a consistent signature is very hard. I watch you and other great guitarists, and see your consistent accuracy as something I probably couldn't achieve even if I spent forever practising ;)
I wouldn't count yourself out just yet. I have horrible handwriting, I don't even attempt to do a real signature. I just do a circle followed by some swirly things. Like the saying, Dr's have the worst handwriting, assuming that also refers to brain surgeons... Accuracy is a matter of proper practice. Playing a piece slowly even when you already know it is the key to accuracy, and my key to getting this piece to the level I want it to be. The fact of the matter is, absolutely no one is better suited than someone else mentally or physically to playing the guitar. my hand span is very small for classical guitarists, and it only slows me down a little bit.