I certainly agree. The idea of the tapestry constantly being rewoven was an analogy I'd come up with a couple of decades ago and various people have found it useful, but it does have its limits.

Though given that "block time" is taken fairly seriously by the theoretical community, there are far more archaic cobwebs on the collective attic to clear away.

One basic point I try making is that the initial patch to Big Bang theory was when they realized that galaxies are redshifted proportional to distance, it makes us appear to be at the center of the entire universe, which would be quite logical for an optical effect, given we are at the center of our point of view. So it was changed from an expansion in space, to an expansion of space, because spacetime!

Which not only ignores the central premise of Special Relativity, that the speed of light is constant in all frames. If intergalactic light is redshifted, obviously it is not constant to intergalactic space.

But it assumes two metrics of space can be derived from the same light. One based on the speed and one on the spectrum.

The logic is that as "space" expands, it essentially stretches the light waves, as though the waves are some wavy line that when stretched out, becomes less wavy. Which totally ignores that the wave effect is due to the energy passing through, thus a function of its speed.

Given the speed is still being treated as the denominator, or it would be a "tired light" model, that means the speed is still the real "ruler."

I came across a paper some years ago, pointing out that while single spectrum light will only redshift due to recession, multi-spectrum light "packets" will redshift over distance, as the higher frequencies dissipate faster, but that would mean we are sampling a wave front, not individual photons. Which raises the issue of whether quantization is fundamantal, or a function of absorption and measurement.

It is an interesting world.