Appeals to authority

We all know parts of the baby steps just don't make sense. I think a lot of the personalities realize this too, so I've noticed their argument is just "well it's a plan that has worked for millions of people so clearly it's right". Another variation of this is Dave getting really petty saying "well you're doing your own steps now and not the baby steps. That's fine but you're not doing the baby steps. How can we help you?" Just pure hostility or appeals to faith whenever they are challenged, don't even feel the need to support some of this stuff.

Do we even know if the plan has worked for millions? I'm sure it's worked for a lot of people, Dave has had a large audience for a long time, but this just isn't a verifiable claim. Anyway....