Sadly you are correct. This is what emotional investment does to common sense. People who otherwise would immediately dismiss utter nonsense feel emotionally obligated to defend their investment, regardless of how nonsensical or irrational it is.
Very few q believers are even interested in discussing. To them even questioning is a form of treason, trolling and the like. They have now concluded that the non believers get together off line to PLAN questioning the q. Not too paranoid is it? They don’t get that the vast majority of people in general and on FR as well don’t buy into irrational theories written in riddles by anonymous people for unknown purposes. Would you?