Questions which have never been asked or answered before, but to which practitioners have immediately obvious answers, are dime a dozen in mathematics.

You can find thousands of such questions on Math StackExchange. Take e.g. [1]: never been asked anywhere else, interesting enough, yet answered pretty much immediately by two separate mathematicians.

"Is there a single constant and function with connected domain that can express all of $\log, \exp, \sin, \dots$?" would have made a fine question there too, the type that gets a thorough answer very quickly if anyone bothers to ask it.

> the burden of proof should not lay with the reader

You were the one who made the claim that "this is one of the most significant discoveries in years". Feel free to substantiate that claim first, according to the same standards. Are there any authors who ask this question, and/or suggest that they don't know an answer?

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2308587/is-the-set-...