As a physicist I find that the level of discourse around these topics among non-physicists ranges from hilarious to depressing. But I am still happy laymen are

As a physicist I find that the level of discourse around these topics among non-physicists ranges from hilarious to depressing. But I am still happy laymen are willing to have these discussions and that physics piques their interest. To be fair, non-experts have the same misunderstanding about physics as they have about any other subject -- economics, politics, medicine -- even music and arts. Hell, even programming on this very site. Should we ban people from discussing subjects outside their field of expertise? I don't think so. If anything, people should entertain more ideas, not less. There are no experts who didn't use to be noobs. That said, I do think that in general popular science articles are pretty bad, and laymen are mostly getting confusion out of them. And I do (probably?) agree with you that the people upvoting these submissions are pretty confused and I am not sure why are they upvoting them. Personally, I wouldn't post such articles here but as long as people seem to happily engage with one another I don't see any problem with such articles. To a first approximation there are the same proportion of people knowing physics here (arguably an offtopic subject) as there are people knowing real type theory (definitely an ontopic subject), so the niche aspect of it can't be a deciding factor on what to post.