This strikes me as the kind of conjecture that has no predictive power, and therefore must be discarded

Maybe it doesn’t provide much in itself, but can help with providing an alternate framework for thinking about observational anomalies in the future.

Heliocentrism didn’t actually improve the predictions of planet movement over geocentric models with epicycles, at least until Kepler swapped out circles for ellipses. So heliocentrism didn’t give an immediate advantage, but laid the groundwork for later improvements that could surpass the limits of geocentrism.