What I'm objecting to is people theorizing in a vacuum about subjects that have been heavily theorized about, as if by starting over and disregarding all prior

What I'm objecting to is people theorizing in a vacuum about subjects that have been heavily theorized about, as if by starting over and disregarding all prior work, someone somehow stands a better, not worse chance of getting it right. Start from where we are on these topics, which is definitely not nowhere.