On small scales, some of these “rapid geology” theories work. They’re nonsensical on global scales.
As I age I’m getting a perspective on what a century really is. Then I note that 10,000 years (typical “young Earth” timeframe) is just 100 hundred-year lifetimes back to back. Having seen what has happened in about half a century, and studied recorded history, it’s pretty easy to extrapolate what one could sensibly expect of geology in that timeframe. That leaves a ridiculously small period for a mind-boggling amount of geologic activity. Exponentiate that with the amount of energy required to make anything happen on that scale in that time, and you’re talking Earth-destroying levels of chaos and power, which have no hope of creating the nuanced structure we see layered within mountainous artifacts. It’s akin to expecting to assemble a building using a nuclear bomb; falling back on “well, if the bomb’s designer is really clever...” is not convincing.
The haloes do prove that granite cooled instantly.