I'm absolutely sure these people exist. I shared a
guardian article the other day by
Jonathan Liew from after the WC. He basically argues that, yeah you can ask questions, you can even go down the rabbit hole of all the details on climbing times, watts per kilogram etc., but still come out of there an decide for yourself: yes, he is clean! It's the nicer reality to live in.
So if
he can convince himself of that after he read enough details and arguments, who is gonna stop someone who is oblivious to any of this from believing he is clean?
Also: don't we live in the "cleanest" era of the sport, by positive tests standards? So how can he be doped?
That the jump in performance doesn't make sense, that the pure numbers don't make sense by standards once believed to be the limits of possible performance, that history teaches us some lessons and that EPO records are being broken. Only one thing, the records, will reach anyone who doesn't aks the question to begin with, that's the records. But there are ready made answers for this: better nutrition, better training methods, better equipment. Doesn't matter that these are the same answers that were already given in Lances days (and probably before as well). What they achieve is that there is alsways an aesthetically and morally more pleasant narrative that is being supported by facts (there's some developement in all of these aspects always) and by being held up by the cheerleaders.
I think a view from the clinic is a very warped view of how Pogacar is perceived generally. Outside of cycling fan cycles I've hardly read any comments by anyone asking questions. And if it happened these questions were dismissed by others by the standard narrative (better science, better food, better tech).
It's also not very likely that the UCI will do anything about it any more, or the teams, because the lesson learned from last time was - and I am pretty convinced this is the case - that it's just not worth it. You can fight doping, maybe even effectively for a while, untill new products come in and the race starts anew. But you will only be punished for it as a buisness and as a sport, without any material reward what so ever.
So this might be the new normal for a long time, just like Sky was in it's dull and terrorizing, yet not as absurdly dominant, way.