It could be that part of the problem is that you only see their public persona. Start adding all the weasel words to imply that you think that something is 73% likely to be mostly true and you lose an audience
Everyone (well, most everyone) could stand to examine their own problems (well, issues) with stating opinions as fact.
It's funny because that's actually literally the kind of thing they do on the show in question, for which there is apparently quite a sizable audience. For example around April or May 2020 Bret presented a model assigning probabilities for various scenarios of lab leak vs zoonotic origin of Sars-Cov-2 (the kind of discussion for which they were branded conspiracy theorists for a long time).
Everyone (well, most everyone) could stand to examine their own problems (well, issues) with stating opinions as fact.