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From my understanding, the problem with Ohm's law is that at the time, they had trouble characterizing internal resistance. You probably noticed that in the article, it is X=a/(b+x), not the familiar V=IR, because they didn't realize yet that internal resistance from the battery was the same as resistance from a length of copper wire. Remember that Kirchhoff's circuit laws came after Ohm and his law became universally recognized.

Everything seems so obvious now, but now, we have accurate multimeters, low internal resistance power supplies and color-coded resistors. They didn't have anything like that in the early 1800s.

Gatekeeping is a thing of course, and it certainly didn't help in Ohm's case, but it is easy to forget the context in which discoveries are made. It is a bit like heliocentrism, obvious now, but when the idea was first introduced, it was actually worse than the theories of that time, based on epicycles, it wasn't just obscurantism.