No! My own focus is Peru/Andean cultures, but I know for a fact that egyptology is an incredibly fractured field, with many schools, outright sects and "big heads" fighting for funding, recognition and political influence. Zahi Hawass is a typical case of a political archeologist. There are many competing schools of thought and methodology without ever stepping into what you call "/x/" territory.
Exactly! So we have to go by circumstantial evidence. How reliable that is, THAT is the question…
Certainly interesting data points, but you know that those cannot be taken unequivocally as true. As e.g. in the case of the Bible, those inscriptions have to be taken with grains of salt. Rewriting of history for dynastical-political ends was very real.
This argument is partially circular: proving progression depends on accurate dating, accurate dating depends on perceived progression… you yourself alluded to the fact that there are great interdynastic differences in capapility and complexity.
Hard to say. Modern scientific egyptology is not much older than 150 years, and was political from the very beginning. First in the context of the Napoleonic conquests, than under the British - and this AFTER more than a millenium of Islamic manipulation of evidence. The fact that simple mathematical observations as mentioned by still today elicit "muh /x/" invectives show that there still isn't a kind of unified theory of the kind of knowledge the ancient Egyptians posessed.
No, what you THINK you know is this or that hypothesis from this or that specific researcher. At this moment in time, no grand, unified theory of egyptology exists. The "Aryan" mummies, the many astrotheological correspondences, the completely unclear relations with Biblical history… the field is much more open than popular books or documentaries imply.
A rock - but not a pyramid. Don't oversimplify things.
Incorrect. The burial chamber hypothesis has been mostly discarded since the 2000s. The top two strongest hypotheses at the moment are the astrotheological/observatory and the initiatory chamber one, both based on the exact alignment of the chutes and chambers with stars like Sirius and the mathematical proportions alluded to by . Of course those two don't exclude the possibility that the Great Pyramids ALSO served as burial places, but any contemporary theory has to incorporate those two pieces of evidence.
Those exist, but by no means universally, and it also isn't that clear what those markings meant at all. As with the general construction methods there exist different hypotheses what those mean. You imply an unified state of knowledge which simply doesn't exist at this moment in time.