thought experiments were pretty cool when Einstein did them to break people out of Victorian mechanics mindset before spaceships had been invented yet, but over the 20th century those things devolved into something archonic. social science people, psychologists mostly, inducting people into their cults by telling them tales about Higher Selves and occasionally conducting a liturgical representation of one of those to endow the shakier ones with power
and relativity turned into a loophole finding contest straight away. if u don’t want people to pick your thought experiment of a crazy hypothetical situation apart you are preaching, not experimenting