> it’s the lifecycle of all scientific theories that they’re used for as long as they make accurate predictions, then we start seeing things they mis-predict, t

> it’s the lifecycle of all scientific theories that they’re used for as long as they make accurate predictions, then we start seeing things they mis-predict, then they’re revised or replaced. No, that's not what always happens with scientific theories. For example, Newtonian mechanics is still used, even though we now know it's not exactly correct; it's an approximation to relativity that works reasonably well for weak gravitational fields and relative speeds that are small compared to the speed of light. The "mechanics" that Newtonian theory (and its predecessors, Galilean mechanics and Kepler's model of the solar system) replaced were indeed replaced--nobody uses Aristotelian physics or Ptolemaic cosmology any more, not even as approximations. But that does not always happen.