Sharp! I'm rejecting the premise that metaphysics should make progress, or that progress is an artifact of anything other than wishful secularism and deception

Sharp! I'm rejecting the premise that metaphysics should make progress, or that progress is an artifact of anything other than wishful secularism and deception at all. When we do discover new tools in it, the version numbers for metaphysics shouldn't increment, they should go backwards to approach zero. Is that progress? Imo, metaphorically directional, but otherwise no. The reason someone says, "don't listen to the devil kids" is it's the best tool they can equip a young mind with that it can understand. I'd argue it's distinct from the same kind of noble lies I'm criticising, in that it's a metonym. Responses like this make risking being very publicly wrong worth it, thank you.