Has little to do with morons. Experts can't even all agree on what any of it means. What most people can agree on is what a catch really is and know one when they see it.
The thing is, if he had kept it tucked away, the ball doesn't touch the ground. That means he had possession at that point (securing and feet hitting multiple times) and anything that happens after that SHOULD (at this point talking common sense not rule interpretation) either down by contact, TD, out of bounds, or a fumble.
Common sense says that it's impossible for him to have been able to make that choice and have the ability of tucking it away safely and just going down or instead reaching it out towards the endzone. At the point he's capable of doing one or the other it's obvious he has possession of the ball and rule that messes with that is really bad. Basically, he met the conditions of A,B, and C. Even if you can interpret it as not meeting C(such as not thinking reaching the ball forward counts, although Pereira and others DO, despite the 'going to the ground' clause, just incredulously not when Bryant does it), it's certainly not conclusive, which means it can't be overturned.
Of course there's apparently also the 'going to the ground' part that's after what I quoted, maybe. Hell it's hard to find all this stuff in more than little blips. Seems that overrules the rest of it. Yet the game official's explanation after the game included the 'act common to the game' verbiage so it WAS considered thus being able for such an act to negate the going to the ground clause.
The thing is it looks like in the rules football moves have nothing to do with the going down part, but football moves (C) only makes any sense to even be mentioned if it has to do with going to the ground (well, still makes little sense but certainly not otherwise). Because if a receiver catches the ball on the sidelines and barely drags the tips of both feet for a split second before being out of bounds, that's considered a catch. He certainly doesn't have time to make any other acts common to the game so why is C there? Why is it not applied to those plays? Also, why are passes not caught with hands ruled completions? There have been passes caught between the legs not secured by hands before going down called completions. The rules regarding a completed pass say they must be secured by hands or arms.
See? What a BS mess.
Not sure what you're saying in the last sentence.