Would Someone Have Discovered General Relativity?

Einstein's general theory of relativity is all about gravity and its effects on space. One of the strange implications of general relativity is that space and time can sometimes curve so intensely thatthey form this bizarre object that we now call a black hole. I kind of wonder if someone would have discovered general or maybe only 200 years later, or something. i completely agree. It is one of the gestures of extreme creativity in the face of limits and constraints. And it very well could have been that 20, 30, forty years later, it would have been discovered as a field theory,. just as there are gravitons, which are quanta of gravity, and theyare exchanged by particles.