All I've been looking for all along is for someone to provide a reasonable hypothesis. It's funny you mention devaluing people's opinions that don't jive with mine, that's exactly how this whole thing started. I shared my own opinion which wasn't in line with everyone else's and people jumped down my throat and called me ignorant. Your hypothesis does nothing to answer the question I've been asking all along, but I've given up getting an answer to that. I've read all the relevant research on the topic. That's how I've arrived at my opinion. I'm sure I'll keep being told to read it until my thinking starts to fall more inline with the group here. This place really is a ****ing joke. No wonder they call it PlaceboMinds and it's why I rarely bother posting. Place is mostly all supplement company reps who love to ball wash each other and constantly push their products. Everybody "stacking" every supplement under the sun and 3/4 of the guys here still don't look like they've ever seen the inside of a gym.
We have provided 'reasonable hypothesis'. Just because the criteria for the studies conducted do not change your mind does not mean that we have not provided reasonable hypothesis. Remember this, you have also not yet posted anything by way of damning evidence to support your viewpoint either. Put simply, not much data exists either way. If you have indeed read all the data as you claim and arrived at your conclusion, then that is fine. Many people ITT have stated they do not agree with mine, or others standpoints and haven't been 'attacked' because of it. Put plainly, I value people's inputs into discussion as there is also two sides to every argument and I do my best to explore all possible evidence before arriving at a conclusion.
However in this case I do not feel that there is sufficient evidence to say "yes it works" or "no it doesn't". After trying many different nutrition strategies, ranging from CBL, IF, eating every 2-3 hours, Paleo, NKLC, KLC, high carb etc. and also played with timing (training fasted, training fed, training with an without intra workout nutrition, no carbs after 6, etc etc etc for a minimum of 6 weeks per strategy, sometimes longer, suffice to say this strategy works best for me. Anecdotally. Keto and low carb were the worst things I've ever done in terms of recovery but the best for general energy, high carb was the best thing id done in terms of recovery. However I constantly felt bloated and heavy so that didn't work either. Moderate carb was both good and bad in terms of recovery and mood support and energy but sometimes lacked in the recovery aspect. Then I started playing with intra on a moderate carb diet and it blew my mind in terms of recovery so I've kept at it.
This way I get the benefits of better mood, less bloat and full recovery without going to the extremes in terms of carb and fat intake. This is entirely related to me and no one strategy will suit every person, but to dismiss it on the technicality that I cannot provide evidence to support my view, given there isn't much evidence to support your own under the criteria you want me to provide evidence for (seems a bit odd), is shortsighted.
It is also ironic that you state we should all be able to have our own opinion, yet insult everyone who doesn't share yours.