It’s fun watching sociologists try to refute the Fermi paradox because 90% of the time it’s like “the idea of Fermi paradox says more about the institutional psychology of the STEM community than it does about the nature of universe because it reveals their unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life, and here’s why”, then proceeds to unwittingly put the commentor’s own unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life on full blast.
Bonus points when they try to flex their sociologist cred to position their framing of the issue as obviously correct, and in the process end up making universalising assertions about hypothetical extraterrestrial civilisations that aren’t even universally true of human civilisations.