I am nearly 90% with you, only one think I do not agree is the fact of making personal decisions to public prompts. When someone makes a personal decision not to buy something it is ok, but when someone - and this happened here - says that TDM didn‘t answer his question and so he won‘t buy anything from them, it becomes public. And his intentions is to bring more people to follow. This is not a personal decision, this is more decry someone. When I have a problem with someone I talk personal to him and won‘t do it public, except he did it (like her). When he/she won‘t answer, I have to accept it and do not try to bring bad reputation over him. Maybe a normality in this times, but unfair.
With the rest of your post I agree. Maybe the same will happen with a mythic India or other mythic earth books. When this all is released as „fantasy“ the same people will take it as normal, because it is only „fantasy“. At the end we should think about this books as a hobby product made by fans, and no historical or political statements.