And... Newton was also wrong. His theories ended up not "overarching" at all, but flawed for aspects of reality that he didn't know about/didn't think about/had

And... Newton was also wrong. His theories ended up not "overarching" at all, but flawed for aspects of reality that he didn't know about/didn't think about/had little data for. CS has lots of similarities with physics, yes. But the devil is in the differences. Think of it this way: If Newton had been trying to solve problems that included objects moving near the speed of light, not caring for what that would imply, he would have failed miserably. Computer scientists were trying to use microkernels to solve problems that required performance, without caring for performance, and failed miserably. Microkernel research was useful, Linux actually implements a lot of concepts devised to improve microkernel performance. It just happens that these concepts work even better when applied to a monolithic/modular kernel. Though luck for microkernelists...