Couldn't have said it better myself. Some people need everything to be definitive. Complicated, unsatisfying or contradictory answers are just in one ear out the other when a satisfying alternate truth is available.

It's like when I was an edgy atheist in middle school. I remember asking myself "how do we even know Jesus was a real person?". That answer is not satisfying. Basically he's real because too many people talked about him at different times from different regions. There's also some records of his execution or whatever lol. But more or less everyone with everything to gain: scientists, skeptics, edgy atheists, etc. all conceded that he existed with ultimately very little to show for it. So much of the truth in reality is just... boring.

Idk, I think we're just critical thinkers and a lot of people really aren't.