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This simply doesn't follow. Knowing *that* something happens does not depend on knowing *why* it happens. It just can't create energy out of nowhere. Does it fail, because it dissipates energy through sound, light or heat? - I don't have to know it to say that it won't work.
As long as you don’t confuse the two — know that something happens vs. knowing why it does — that’s fine. But you can find instances of this confusion *everywhere*
“I wonder if Persephone is *actually* trapped in the Underworld right now.” “What? Of course she is! It’s snowing outside! The nights have never been longer! Are you trying to say it’s Spring?”
There are different levels of abstraction that are be appropriate. Existence of a more concrete explanation doesn't automatically mean that the more abstract one is gibberish.
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Too many bad takes built on reductive ideas about why people do what they do, especially online — less, I think, because they have useful explanatory power, and more because they allow people to skip entirely the layer containing desires they don’t endorse or fully understand