Advice from anyone, is never free from bias of self and everything in selves' life, informed up to the time of the advice.
Your group got weak for group sake, and cowered to the expert, for seed of doubt or for easy comfy group dynamics.
You were cucked, the only question is how many more times after that, did you listen to the "experts"?
How long did you earn from the communist corporation, and how many did you aide and abet in being comfortably cucked?