If I understand it correctly, people in this field are generally not in accord regarding the fossils of this era. There are multiple schools of thought regarding what kind of species/sub-species should be considered to exist or whether to classify certain fossils as simply archaic Neanderthals and sapiens. In such a highly debated field it will be hard to convince many scholars of this new theory.

And the reclassifying without getting consensus is something that people do all the time and some scholars clearly are annoyed by it.