Why do people always downvote when you criticize explicit textbook-based studying and advocate for a comprehensible input only approach?

Is the idea of learning a language through listening and contextual awareness really that hard to grasp? Do you really think that having explicit knowledge of the grammar of a language which native speakers themselves lack will help you speak more fluently and spontaneously when that is 100% built through being repeatedly exposed to chunks of phrases that carry a specific meaning? You can study to avoid specific mistakes early on all you want but 1- this isn't something that CI can't achieve by itself and 2- it doesn't necessarily lead to automaticity and spontaneity in real life conversations, it just gives tou knowledge. Knowledge doesn't necessarily lead to fluency, repetition of context absorption does, everytime you hear a specific chunk associated with a specific context the connection between words and meaning will be strengthened and your brain will be more likely to retrieve the chunk whenever the context pops up. There is zero explicit grammar studying required for this.

I've never gone anywhere near a grammar textbook to learn any of my languages and never will, I've never bothered to try to pick up grammar explicitly, I'm C1+ in English, I'm comfortably conversational in French after only 10 weeks by doing nothing but listening to the language being naturally used, I can easily already understand a substantial amount of fast spoken native content and I've heard spoken french is supposed to be this big nightmare for learners. Yeah, nightmare for people who dedicate most of their time to going over grammar tables and drills maybe.

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