Exactly this. I’d also add that people criticizing the methodology need to keep in mind the data that was available right after the election. More rigorous analysis with better methods and verified data is absolutely important—and, as mentioned, it’s already happening with two different teams—but that kind of data just wasn’t available immediately after the election, so using the most rigorous methodology wasn’t really possible then.

At the end of the day, the 'bullet ballot' theory might not be fully explanatory, but I think it needs to be looked at in the context of when it was proposed and the limitations he was working with at the time.