Excellence in any field does not naturally confer upon the person the wisdom and intelligence to pierce thru the outer layer of reality to grasp its inner essence.
Exhibit A.

His tweet, at most, invites pity at how a gr8 cricketer is now parroting the govt line to stay relevant https://twitter.com/sachin_rt/status/1356959311075934215

It's fascinating though. How so many folks got rattled not by what the State does or did but by why the actions of the State are being put under the scanner globally.
Nationalism, as i-forget-who famously noted, is the last resort of scoundrels.

There was a good reason why thinkers and writers had to be incisive enough to warrant attention and respect in the past. Self-publishing through SM is a bit like monkeys given typewriter on account of which they consider themselves to be Aristotles, Spinozas and Wittgensteins.