The problem with being a professional critic is that your business model and audience *will not let you change your mind.* You are literally priced into moving the goalposts if you're wrong because people are there for the criticism, not openness that happened to be critical.
i would rather be an optimist and work hard than a pessimist posting about why things won't work.
it's much more difficult and the most likely path is failure, but society fails if people don't try.
no amount of "it will never work" essays will drive society forward.
