Sure, as a mental model- it's wrong but has value when it comes to communicating effectively to an audience. Specialist communication within a domain implies a shared narrative and context, so can focus on granular details (facts). Generalist communication across domains and up or down the status hierarchy always requires storytelling, to establish context, before presenting any facts.
So people themselves have to do both, what and how they emphasize depends on the specific domain and circumstance.
Pro tip: if you think of yourself as fact based, work to understand what narratives form your grounding fabric for fact interpretation, so much so that you don't even think about it.
There's an essay on detail cultue versus fuzzy big picture culture; it comes down to a difference between narrative word-based comprehension versus web-of-facts. Lawyers versus engineers. Rhetoric versus logic.
https://www.someweekendreading.blog/math-illiterate-rulers/
Related to "Let justice be done though the heavens fall" (Fiat justitia ruat caelum) versus "We're not going to acknowledge this because we don't like the outcome; we don't want to live in a world where X is true, so therefore it's not true."
So people themselves have to do both, what and how they emphasize depends on the specific domain and circumstance.
Pro tip: if you think of yourself as fact based, work to understand what narratives form your grounding fabric for fact interpretation, so much so that you don't even think about it.