You seem to be missing the point of CAE_Jones’ comment there. The people you ask about your unconventional idea “rationalizing” why they’re not doing something that seems obvious to you is what it feels like on the inside when your “obvious” idea is actually dumb and the people you’re asking have good reasons not to be doing it, what makes you so confident that that’s not what’s going on?
You seem to be missing the point of CAE_Jones’ comment there. The people you ask about your unconventional idea “rationalizing” why they’re not doing something that seems obvious to you is what it feels like on the inside when your “obvious” idea is actually dumb and the people you’re asking have good reasons not to be doing it, what makes you so confident that that’s not what’s going on?