That’s a polite way of putting it. I tend to think it’s basically lazy.
These ideas have been around a while. I was taking Egyptology many moons ago when a friend noticed and informed me that a more “advanced” group had given the Egyptians the knowledge of how to build pyramids. I asked him why the “advanced” people gave the Egyptians knowledge of faulty pyramids since some of their early structures had fallen over during construction.
He didn’t have an answer for that since the only pyramids he knew of were the famous ones.
Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World.
Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods.
Morning of the Magicians.
Hamlet's Mill...
Imaginary, hypothetical history, but all based on things about which inquiring minds want to know.
What's hard to believe is that anyone thinks it shouldn't be allowed.
I actually found the step pyramids and the marhaba even more awesome than the pyramids. Maybe it’s because there were less tourists