I don't think so — in this specific case (and probably you can extrapolate to some degree in a generic way) one of those viewpoints has proven to be more successful/adaptive/helpful than the other. Even though they are both "true" to a degree.

I mean, there are all sorts of confounding factors, but in a rough sense we are now able to look at various populations (countries, states, or even friend/acquaintance cohorts) that leaned into one or the other of those positions, and compare how they fared.