[alimov]

I think he’s pointing out that the “criticism” here is similar to that of a person criticizing a book they’ve never read or even flipped through.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Perhaps, but that criticism should be the easiest to ignore. The OP expresses frustration to lay criticism and I expect that even brief contact with academic criticism will make the frustration felt by the OP to lay criticism fade into irrelevance.