NB it may be worth pointing out that widespread itself appears somewhat more associated with negatively evaluated things; the reusable link which could be used to show this is https://ske.li/widespread_adj. It looks like this:
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
Students can gain a substantial encounter with ‘authentic language’
The reusable link https://ske.li/substantial shows that encounter is not one of the nouns commonly modified by substantial. The link looks a bit like this:
An alternative way of looking at this is to see which verbs most commonly follow ability to… – the link here is https://ske.li/ability_tonf and looks like this: