My personal experience on this topic was as follows. Someone told me about the lab leak, and I was like "Phhht, gimme a break". But then when I found out that there is in fact a lab doing research in the same city, and they think that it originated in a market that people go to, the most likely scenario is that a worker from the lab was infected and handled product at the market.

I was totally gobsmacked to see the cultural response to suggesting the lab leak theory. The simply knowledge of the fact that there is in fact a lab in the vicinity, should have put it directly on par with a natural origin.

Instead, it became a left vs right talking point.

It's not that we don't like uncertainty. It's that we politicize uncertainty. Politicians and social media influencer feel the need to take a side and then paint opposing positions as evil.