It seems like you're taking the latter (lack of ideas) for evidence of the former (dishonesty), which doesn't seem fair to me. It's absolutely possible to legit

It seems like you're taking the latter (lack of ideas) for evidence of the former (dishonesty), which doesn't seem fair to me. It's absolutely possible to legitimately think something is a big problem and also not know how to solve it – in fact some would argue this contributes to the "bigness" of the problem in the first place.