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There is also a large audience for outage of any sort. If you have a message of "people who believe X are idiots" you've got a big audience: all the people who disagree with X love to hear you elaborate all the ways the X people are idiots and thereby feel smart and smug and righteous.
The audience of X believers who might listen to a message of "hey, here's why X isn't quite right" is a harder sell. For one thing most people are not looking to hear how some view of theirs is wrong, and even worse, in this polarized environment all the people making hay off of "X believers are idiots" are helping inoculate the X believers against that message.