It seems plausible that there is no such thing as “correct” metaphilosophy, and humans are just making up random stuff based on our priors and environment and that’s it and there is no “right way” to do philosophy, similar to how there are no “right preferences”.
We can always fall back to “well, we do seem to know what we and other people are talking about fairly often” whenever we encounter the problem of whether-or-not a “correct” this-or-that actually exists. Likewise, we can also reach a point where we seem to agree that “everyone seems to agree that our problems seem more-or-less solved” (or that they haven’t been).
I personally feel that there are strong reasons to believe that when those moments have been reached they are indeed rather correlated with reality itself, or at least correlated well-enough (even if there’s always room to better correlate).
Relatedly, philosophy is incredibly ungrounded and epistemologically fraught. It is extremely hard to think about these topics in ways that actually eventually cash out into something tangible
Thus, for said reasons I probably feel more optimistically than you do about how difficult our philosophical problems are. My intuition about this is that the more it is true that “there is no problem to solve” then the less we would feel that there is a problem to solve.
We can always fall back to “well, we do seem to know what we and other people are talking about fairly often” whenever we encounter the problem of whether-or-not a “correct” this-or-that actually exists. Likewise, we can also reach a point where we seem to agree that “everyone seems to agree that our problems seem more-or-less solved” (or that they haven’t been).
I personally feel that there are strong reasons to believe that when those moments have been reached they are indeed rather correlated with reality itself, or at least correlated well-enough (even if there’s always room to better correlate).
Thus, for said reasons I probably feel more optimistically than you do about how difficult our philosophical problems are. My intuition about this is that the more it is true that “there is no problem to solve” then the less we would feel that there is a problem to solve.