My point is that something that comes in a variety of forms which your culture has regular contact with is going to have a lot of words describing this particular thing.

I used water because it's easy to grasp how this myth is bogus but there are a ton of snow-related terms which I listed in English above which you have missed.

I was illustrating how it's not really a matter of having an abundance of words for one thing but a number of words to describe something which takes on many different forms in order to describe/distinguish between these forms. I could have just as easily said that English has over 30 words for cat:

Housecat, barn cat, puma, Russian blue, cheetah, lynx, Pallas, feline, leopard, Burmese, lion, tiger, panther, jaguar, ocelot, caracal, Garfield, tomcat, Sphynx, calico, snow leopard, Maine coo-n, cougar, alleycat, sabre-tooth, jungle cat, bobcat, Cheshire cat, ragdoll, Scottish fold...

It's not about how Eskimos have over 30 different words for the same type of snow, it's about undermining this orientalist perspective that we have about different cultures; if I said that Chinese has over 30 different words for rice it's playing directly into this notion but if I explained that English has over 30 different words for rice it becomes a tedious, mundane list of different rice varieties and ways of preparation.

Linguists have discussed this trope for decades and there really isn't any significant difference in the number of words that Eskimos use for snow compared to a language like English.