[onethought]

You are confusing what "Appeal to Authority" fallacy is. Namely you are ignoring the fallaciousness of it.

The fallacy is where you use an authority in place of evidence. It is not fallacious to refer to consensus or experts.

Else, you end up basically in the "Do your own research"/vaccine denier/climate deniers/flat earth territory. Appeals to experts is not a logical fallacy. It's actually smart, because you get to leverage agreed facts (the earth is round) even though you've never actually been to space to see it for yourself.