I know how you feel. I think ME happens more so to people that have tried to seek the truth in things that can't be explained in main stream science. It may be that what ever is causing the ME wants it this way to create confusion among those who seek things outside the limited reality that is set in place. I personally think this is more likely the case then the ME happening by accident or an effect caused by the aftermath of time travellers. I may be wrong on that and I know it sounds crazy but I think some of us have been moved from alternate versions of earth on purpose (maybe something like a CON-sciousness switch) by the same force that controls the universe, the earth, the astral planes and afterlife realms, our birth. ect.. call it god or a ET if you want. but if it is it's obviously not a good one by the looks of it! the M effect is most likely all part of a well set in place program that was already been planned and calculated long ago by entities that goes way beyond what we can perceive.
So -"things that can't be explained in main stream science" and being "among those who seek things outside the limited reality that is set in place" is a cause and the result (punishment?) is to be placed in a slightly different alternate reality and experience confusion?
Absolutely nothing is off the table for me. Just so you know, I do call Him God and He doesn't make me go to church to be close to HIm.
I must be somehow misunderstanding your theory because I can't figure out why God would move me to another reality because I investigated non-scientific and religiously banned methods of receiving answers or achieving results. Especially when the end result was to trust and rely on God more, not less. And observing the Mandela Effect also enhances my beliefs in God, it doesn't dampen them. What the ME hadn't done, until I entertained your theory, is imagine that God was actually doing it to me. In fact, as I typed that, God reminded me of the verse, "God is not the author of confusion."
So, that part of your theory is very difficult for me. If God is doing it, my gut says it would not be as a punishment. It would have to be a wake-up call or a warning or an example (of how truth can be manipulated, for instance).
If the desired result is confusion then "the other" entities are definitely up to no good, as you say. And I just thought of another verse. I had to look it up. 2 Thes 11-12 "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
So, if this is it Vortex, if ME is the delusion, we are in some deep shit, man. I don't know - I'm just not feeling it - are you?