Because painting those who objected to these definitions of mathematical infinity as "horrified" and "disturbed" was a form of character assassination, which was not uncommon at the time. The high moderns didn't play.

History only seems obvious in retrospect

I would invite you to be more open to the idea that people don’t live in a world where they operate inside a theoretical framework with localized test actions

major breakthroughs tend to cause existential crises because most people don’t have full scope of their work in order to understand where it is broken