If these guys only knew they could have played for 24 seasons without any decline in skill, they might never have retired.

This reads like a Rimworld character sheet.

So who will win?

I support nuclear as part of the solution. But its construction time should be compared to the construction time of other renewables, not to the construction time of coal plants.

All three technologies have tradeoffs. Each is part of the solution, none is the entire solution. Nuclear is too slow to build to address the problem on its own.