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Someone tell them what the 'fi' stands for in sci-fi
Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it shouldn't be believable. A good story shouldn't make you suspend disbelief to the point that it keeps feeling unrealistic, at least within the world that the author created.
If I write a story about an average Joe who goes back in time to the 1700s, people might be able to accept that premise, but then if I write that, because he's from our time, he knows how to do everything our civilization does, from making and programming a computer to building a jet airplane to landing people on the moon, I think most people would find that too unrealistic to be enjoyable.
And then they'll tell you what the sci stands for and keep bitching, and honestly quite rightly so.
It IS a dumb trope that doesn't reflect realiy, and fiction's job is to reflect reality, not to break away from it. Not with human reactions and behavior.