Funny enough, you want to argue with people who have done some real work in this field and produced results in thousands of people? But you do not provide any refutation.
I think i know quite a lot about this already: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/macrocodex/smart-calorie-bu...
We've written this algorithm; it factors all the math and current research. Let me know if you have any evidence to refute this, or if you have any paper or mechanism we do not already factor in.
Here's our claim: "Guaranteed results within 2-4 weeks of using macrocodex, people will see weight loss or weight gain depending on whatever they want."
Other than this we've people already seeing benefit from our approach, just because you failed to apply deficit wrong doesn't mean "calorie deficit" doesn't work.