On the black hole information paradox and reality

I recently watched a Netflix doc on black hole-related parallel developments in 2017-2018: the Event Horizon Telescope and the collaboration over years between Hawking, Strominger, Perry and Haco (published as "Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair" not long after Stephen's death towards resolving the Black Hole Information Paradox). 

More recently, in 2019, Penington et al have published an interesting paper: "Replica wormholes and the black hole interior". Musser published a review of this paper and other related papers (and historical background from Feynman in the 1940s leading up to it, e.g. Page Curve, quantum extremal surface, black hole island) in Quanta. My favorite part of this review are these quotes:

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