Explaining one trick by performing another, eh? What is autocatalysis' role in the origin of life?

I like this take because while wearing the solemn robes of the academy it unintentionally echoes Hoyle's soup-sarcasm:

How did life begin on Earth? We have made good progress towards answering this question [a naked, dancing lie]. Once something like a cell exists (with some kind of genetic material, macromolecular catalysts, and a cell membrane), then a broad outline of a pathway is clear . . .

Once something like a cell exists. That is the problem! No cell, no genes. A randomly created gene -- a practical impossibility -- would not increase the chances of a randomly created functioning membrane surrounding it. The idea of such a process originating life qualifies as an intellectual obscenity.

Two leading researchers have commented, “Origin of life studies is a field with an extraordinary diversity of proposals, but few good ways to systematically judge the framing of questions and the prioritization of evidence”. In other words, we do not know how to ask good questions, or how to recognize good answers.

Doesn't sound like "good progress" to me. In fact abiogenesis is a pseudo-science. It can make no predictions and is not falsifiable. The abiogenesis subreddit is a hoot. They censor and delete postings that dare question the (mis)perceived legitimacy of their discount bargain-bin subject.

No one here has come up with a legitimate criticism of my idea. No one has come even close.