My "gather" as a layman on economics...
The "scientific" or "academic" economics doesn't seem to actually fit reality.
However.
The real world economics doesn't seem to fit the science.
Leads me to believe it's not a science, but sociology by numbers.
Most economics is based on the idea that consumers are totally rational actors, and the availability of cheap and plentiful energy has little impact on economic growth. So, its not based on any analysis of the real world.
Epic. I heard this opinion (or the related core) from
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardJMurphy (Prof economics Sheffield)
When trying to explain modern economics, in his own opinionated way, he started out with, paraphrase: "Do not assume that things happen for any reason, let alone a logical or rational one. That is the mistake of classical economics."
EDIT: A thought occurred. If it's true that economics has not yet grasped it, marketing certainly has. That people can be prompted to be irational, emotional, ilogical and they will even, if you play your wording right, believe outright lies.
The economics which might state "If the price of X changes in direction Y, then the consumer will respond accordingly by doing Z" are not considering that modern day marketing makes that completely invalid.