  We show that if a semipositive symplectic manifold $M^{2n}$ is Steenrod
uniruled, in the sense that the quantum Steenrod power of the point class does
not agree with its classical Steenrod power for any prime, then the (rational)
quantum product on $M$ is deformed. This bridges the gap between the recent
advances towards the Chance-McDuff conjecture utilizing quantum Steenrod
operations, and the natural formulation of the Chance-McDuff conjecture in
terms of rational Gromov-Witten theory.
