Walter Scott is an anti-romantic (sort of)

Maybe few will agree with me, but I read Waverly by Sir Walter Scott, and I know it's supposed to be a romantic adventure, what with being written in the romantic age and all, but if you look at it carefully, there's a lot of anti-romantic elements in it as well, mostly that, in fact. There's a lot of focus on how reason and rationality and a practical education is more important than just fancy reading or indulging in something simply out of passion. This is most clear in the early chapters of Waverley's introduction and education. And, it makes sense, tbh, 'cause Scott himself is a product of the prior age of reason, the enlightenment periods, had his education and bringing up at a time like that. Though certainly he mention very clearly in the introduction that he wrote Waverley as a romantic urge to go back to authentic Scottish history. What do you guys think?