We are living in Pinocchio's world

The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs.

Skepticism is always healthy. Mostly everything has trade-offs, apparent or not, so you have to keep going until you can see their shape.