You can't blindly apply the bootstrap to any problem whatsoever. But you really, absolutely, unequivocally can blindly apply the bootstrap to generate a confide

You can't blindly apply the bootstrap to any problem whatsoever. But you really, absolutely, unequivocally can blindly apply the bootstrap to generate a confidence interval around the mean of data generated from any distribution. You cannot easily get nonsensical results. In a few rare edge cases, you can get suboptimal results (e.g. 80% instead of 95% coverage, or 99% coverage instead of 95% coverage) but even these are not nonsensical. I really don't see why you want to be arguing over facts.