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Continental drift is well accepted today. It was not in the recent past. Your incredulity that anyone ever questioned the idea is misplaced.

What you describe as irrefutable proof (fault lines, earthquakes, volcanic activity, hot spots, magnetic striping at mid-ocean ridges, etc.) is actually proof of what might be called "micro-movement" (perhaps analogous to "micro-evolution"?). Macro-movement (the drift of entire continents) was not readily accepted as a reasonable inference from such micro-movement. After all, no one has ever actually seen a continent move.

Your willingness to accept without question the inference of macro-movement from the available evidence just seems peculiar to me. One hears all the time that while "micro-evolution" may be true, that is no evidence of "macro-evolution", and that evolution is nothing but sheer spectulation due to the lack of eye-witness evidence. It just seems logical that you would apply this same reasoning to plate tectonics.