[_imba_]

I am confused by the criticisms "a superimposed set of abstractions. Nothing more." and "nothing to do with its processes". Surely that is exactly what this kind of framework attempts to achieve? ie ways of abstracting to make better decisions when the problem is too complex or soft for process-level understanding.

[usgroup]

I think the op is saying, unlike its often presented, by learning Bayes youre not "discovering the truth about how to update beliefs from data". I.e. its not a panacea, its a framework with strengths and weaknesses.

Recall, most statisticians are not Bayesian. Most science is not Bayesian and its not because everyone is naive or just too stupid to see. The Bayesian approach is well known and long standing but it takes using it in anger to see what it is good for and what it is not.