I mean, you are mostly right, but almost all paradigm shifts go through crackpot-accusation phases where experimental results are either ignored, misinterpreted, or in progress (relativity wasn't validated by an experiment until 1920). The problem is even more profound in computer science, where many sub fields aren't really experimental sciences, and is definitely problematic here, which seems to be more science philosophy...the theory seems sound, the question is mainly about its usefulness (does thinking about possibility and impossibility in physical systems add anything over state transitions?).

How do you tell the difference between a crackpot and an out of the box thinker? Sometimes it's obvious (I've squared the circle!), but often times it is ambiguous (probably a crackpot, probably not a genius). In this case, I would argue that it is the latter.