When it is shown that light does not use an aether, then it is not proven that there is no aether.

To make the speed of light the standard is like saying that God = Energy, and therefore we have God.

Einstein wagged the dog. Instead of staying with light and accepting its properties in the larger setting of the universe, light was used as a standard for the universe, a fallacy.

It is like stating that because all nations have currencies that can exchange from one currency into the other, that money is then the only standard in the world. So, that is illogical, an over-stepping of the information.