On the positive side, the frequentist approach doesn’t need assumptions about the pre-data probability of the thing of interest. On the negative side, the freq

On the positive side, the frequentist approach doesn’t need assumptions about the pre-data probability of the thing of interest. On the negative side, the frequentist approach doesn’t produce a post-data probability for the thing of interest either. It provides the probability of something else - as you mention - which can also be interesting but it’s not what people really would like to know (as the generalized misinterpretation of the meaning of frequentist results makes clear).