I agree with you on the reptifiles thing that they don't have all the experience, but my viewpoint is that because the owner converses with others such as AAH that she gets the information from those with it. I was mainly trying to link you reading material, but most of the mentions of being semi arboreal/climbing reptiles are in Liam's videos (R&R). On his youtube page he does have many playlist for a lot of different topics, including one fully dedicated to ball pythons which I recommend checking out. Also some of those papers on his website are written by a different person not him, and I hadn't noticed any questionable things.