You're allowed to think whatever you want, but the cold hard truth is it's a very expensive energy source. I will agree with you it's more than just cost, but it's also like 80% costs so it just doesn't move the needle as much as you'd think to the heads of Evergy for example. It's like how coal used to be super cheap and now it's not so much. Do regulations and opinion affect this? Of course, but it seriously comes down to $$ at the end of the day. Regs and opinions are much more icing to an already built cake.
It's like my previous post about planning, nuclear, then coal, then gas are huge investment stakes and down payments for a utility, and ultimately their main cost becomes operating costs from their fuel, followed by straight up maintenance costs and then by how many people work at these facilities. Nuke plants have hundreds on staff, so does coal, gas only has people in the tens (like 30-40), and wind and solar? Only have someone there to check on it, so no one.
The barriers to viability are literally written in what it takes to get it to market. Nuke plants need giant containment structures, an specific fuel blend for the reactor, and somewhere to put it when it's done. Just a lot of physical assets to build and maintain. If you believe you can do it cheaper I have a non-containment done on the cheap former plant in a currently war torn country undergoing a 100+ year clean up to sell to you.
Coal has a giant boiler, hundreds if not thousands of miles of piping, process systems, boiler management system to install, that's what truly killed coal, Obama's regs only hastened a die cast in how it inherently operates, basically a giant complex machine.
Gas's main stop was cost of fuel, but if you ever go to one vs a nuke and coal, literally you'll go that's it? They are incredibly simple tech all things considered. Once it's price of fuel came down, utilities will trade ease of operation and flexibility with low maintenance and fewer staff all day.
Then go to wind and solar, the tech is super straight, the cost is literally an economies of scale, and now that has happened, well, it's why it's winning. Incentives kick start, but making a new solar plant is just have a site, clear it, have a robot go around plopping some poles, and get a handful of dudes to assemble the arrays and wire it up, and you're basically done. Laughably easy to operate all things considered.