I see the same in the news a lot. When you are deep in an industry you see all the important errors they make reporting on what happened often missing the point entirely while making something else up. At any reasonable niche the amount of people who likely can have a quality opinion on something is really quite small and that includes alas the journalists who didn't grasp the details when they interviewed the experts.

We are all fools on many topics, most topics. One of my mentors in the past used to say there was no substitute for experience in an area. If you were joining a project and the members had a head start you should listen and learn because their experience was way ahead of your opinions on how it could be done.