@aral Thanks, exploring and considering.
Two meta comments:
I can think of several hot-take responses.
For both our sakes, to better understand your views and the sources you cite, and out of respect (I genuinely admire your work, differences entirely notwithstanding), I'm going to shut the fuck up and will probably address comments generally rather than to you, though I'll likely point you to them later. That seems to usually help reduce the role of personality, almost always the least interesting aspects of such exchanges.
Thanks for your time and thoughts, again, sincerely.