Do people REALLY not understand why you go for two after the first TD when down 15?

The Cowboys/Falcons game stirred up the national debate that occurs at least several times a year, and I genuinely have no idea why this is still a debate.

It is objective, statistical fact that going for two after the first TD when down by 15 is the right move. You want to know as early as possible whether you need two or three scores. This seems not only intuitive to me but is backed up by decades of data, which shows that teams who go for in the first time in this scenario win the game more often than those who until the second score to try. This is because teams who MISS the attempt when trying after the first score know they have to get the ball twice more and play accordingly (as Dallas did). This is opposed to teams who wait until the second score to try, at which point if they fail they’ve often played it down to the wire with too little time left and put everything on that play. There is no debate to be had here, there’s simply a right and wrong answer.

Yet every year I see fans and sports talking heads, in HUGE NUMBERS, who simply cannot wrap their heads around the above explanation. They ask “why would you do something that potentially leaves you still down by two scores” and say “you want to extend the game”, and I’m left wondering how they dress themselves successfully each morning.

I know humans in general are dumb and illogical, but this has been explained to all of these people repeatedly for YEARS.