The enlightenment involved the promotion of knowledge not "expert", it promoted the belief that a claim should be proven with data, it promoted that the best way to get to the actual truth is with robust inquiry, debate, trial and argumentation

To attempt to equate that with today "The Experts™" and "Authoritative Sources™" who instead of engaging in robust debate want to engage in robust censorship, these "Experts™" and "Authoritative Sources™" are more akin to Dark Ages Priests wanting to burn the heretic than they are of Enlightenment thinkers and scientists