Besides those working in the technology keeping themselves employed, I'm really confused who is supporting hydrogen.

The infrastructure to support it is far more complex than our current petroleum network, and hydrogen is less safe than petroleum, while at the same time, electric is safer and requires just 10% of the infrastructure as petroleum.

It reaaalllly just feels like scientists and fossil fuel grifters still propping up hydrogens dead xorpse

My impression is it's auto and fuel companies putting out this unworkable alternative to current technologies so they can appear to be concerned about climate change without having to actually stop making money, also if it does work they can crack the petro chemicals to get hydrogen out and people who point out it's basically as dirty as ICE engines will look like pedants.

The scientists are just there because if you give them the opportunity to work on hard technical challenges, they'll take it. The morality is much greyer than the ones being paid to contrive models with the initial goal of "higher CO2 is actually good for everybody."