I totally get your point, that getting stuck in a framework can make it harder to get out of said framework, but I also have every reason to think that the expe

I totally get your point, that getting stuck in a framework can make it harder to get out of said framework, but I also have every reason to think that the experts in the field (which may well include you) are aware of this trap and spend a huge amount of time trying to get out of it. But I'd also expect that people making new theories be intimately familiar with the current ones, right? It would be silly to expect someone to come up with hamiltonian mechanics for the first time without having ever been exposed to newtonian mechanics, even though both give the same answers to every problem. Yeah, thinking outside the box is always super hard, but you have to at least deeply understand the box before you can know enough to replace it. I definitely don't understand this particular box, but I feel it's reasonable to assume that those that do are trying their darndest to escape it -- if for no other reason than fame if successful.