Sometimes, I would like to undertand this obsession against the exposure triange. But it would be more likely a sociologist study than a scientific study.
It couldn't be a 'scientific study' because the triangle is not a scientific thing. It's a graphic device, a diagram. For myself, I learned my photography before the triangle existed. None of the texts I used mentioned the triangle. I learned what exposure, shutter speed, aperture and film speed was . I learned how to set exposure in different situations with different films and processing and seeking different objectives.
Since the transition to digital, I began to find that many, maybe even most photographers didn't know what exposure is, they didn't know what aperture is. 'ISO' in the digital world is a bit more tricky, and I had to find out what it means these days, then I found the they didn't know what ISO is, either.
I began to wonder why so many photographers, capable intelligent people, no longer seem to know what are the very basic concepts of photography. So I began to look at the resources on the Web that they use nowadays. virtually every one told them nonsense, and most of them used this 'triangle' graphic as the explanation for this nonsense. In conversations on these forums, I found people justifying the nonsense 'because the triangle'.
In the end, the point is simple.
The triangle is not a basic part of photographic theory. It is a simplistic infographic that seeks to illustrate the APEX exposure system, but inconveniently omits the LV component. If it is a piece of pedagogy, then its utility must be in the its results. And since the vast majority of people 'educated' using the triangle have failed to grasp the basics, it seems to me to be useless.
When I learned photography no-one had heard of the triangle and most photographers knew what exposure is and how to manage it. Post triangle, most photographers don't, including those that claim to be experts and teach the stuff.