I mean, from an outsider point of view, it looks like people who voted a 3rd party voted for what they believed. People who voted dems voted against what they believed trying to win and then are projecting some “justice warrior” idea onto who voted what they actually wanted to vote. I rarely see someone saying they voted 3rd party, but I often see it used as a scorn by dems… I doubt people would brag about it since it basically makes people react like you: “I don’t hate you” proceeds to insult an imaginary justice warrior that is supposedly voting a 3rd party lol
I mean, the recent discoveries actually do not dispute most of the previous theories. Most of the time the old theories are fringe cases where some parameters are simplified so you get the new theory that is actually a general case of the classical one. It’s not like our old formulas stop working when we discover new cases…