I doubt it would be any different. LQG folks still seem to resent the greater attention that string theory gets. String theorists still mostly don't spend any t

I doubt it would be any different. LQG folks still seem to resent the greater attention that string theory gets. String theorists still mostly don't spend any time thinking about LQG. Neither has made any great breakthroughs or grand new predictions for experiments in that time. And it's just as easy to make up a straw-man character today as it was in 2003.