I never understood the zeropods hate, Mercedes built the second fastest car but it looked different, so everyone immediately knew more than the people at Mercedes that said “We know why it’s slow, and it’s not the side pods”

Then they introduced an update that didn’t make them faster than Red Bull, and immediately everyone goes “Ha! I told you it’s the side pods!” And they were like “No, but fine, here’s some side pods” and the car also didn’t get any faster.

Why on earth does reddit and (I’m assuming lemmy) think that they know more than the people that design, build and understand the car?