It's all in their heads, so therefor, no actual wound?
Like honeybadger, exoplanets and dwarf planets don't care.
But -- why doesn't the concept of exoplanets, dwarves and other debris drifting out beyond orbits of gas giants (eventually out of range of being vacuumed, swept up by gravity of the big planets) not work as a postulate?
“But — why doesn’t the concept of exoplanets, dwarves and other debris drifting out beyond orbits of gas giants (eventually out of range of being vacuumed, swept up by gravity of the big planets) not work as a postulate?”
Well, that’s not even a postulate. You have to read between the lines here. What they are clinging to is the planetary nebula hypothesis, and so by talking about this discovery in context of how the solar system formed, he is implying that the discovery is compatible with the planetary nebula hypothesis.
However, the planetary nebula hypothesis is already defunct, kaput, pushing up the daisies. They have not replaced it with a new model. Therefore, they have no currently viable model for solar system origins. There is no framework that they can fit this discovery into and learn anything about the origin of the solar system. He’s just spewing nonsense at the reporters to make it look like they still know what they are talking about.