I have observed that creators, once they commit themselves to something dumb, tend to buy into that dumbness, and stubbornly persists in defending that dumbness. They insult their audience. This is just television. Viewers can't chew gum and change channels at the same time. Nobody is going to notice.
People do notice.
To mention just one major dumbness, this flying saucer supposedly has the entire human genetic code written on it in Navajo. Watching Scully translate, we see that she is doing a phonetic transliteration. This is silly on several levels. I'll mention just two. It would be so easy to avoid stupidity like this.