Advisors also have to start somewhere. There will always be a first PhD student who works on something everyone has only vague ideas about. I have worked with s

Advisors also have to start somewhere. There will always be a first PhD student who works on something everyone has only vague ideas about. I have worked with such students and they are genuinely a different kind of person from other PhDs. They require little to none guidance and have very strong opinions on how to do their work. I believe OP was a poor choice for this position.