Yep. They are pessimists in denial.
You suffer from conflation and confimation bias as evidenced by your ommission of realists (to say nothing of the alternatives) but by all means continue your discussion with your sock puppets. Meanwhile I think I will disregard you for awhile until you return to considering the team from multiple points of view as these oversimplifications are irksome.
This LoD, SSS, or whatever else has really been beaten into the ground until it isn't even funny anymore.