You said

> No, not morons, but people who have built a career on string theory. At this point, even if they regret their decisions, it’s too late to turn back now.

This is not presented as "yet another option that may or may not be the reality", this is presented as your conclusion of why we observe what we observe.

Maybe it is not what you are thinking, but you cannot blame people for interpreting your message the way you have written it.

I agree with you that there are several options, one of the most probable, that you did not mention, is that the situation of the string theory is just "normal" and some idiots are not able to understand that.