i went to a lecture wolfram gave at my university when he was touring for NKS. he would answer a question from a CS professor until he went over the CS professor's head, then a biologist until he went over his head, then a physicist until he went over her head. flippantly passing off that level of genius by calling him "the lovable George Costanza of the mathematics community" says something. i understand wolfram has a huge ego, but that does not belittle his accomplishments.
just because your work "ruffled some feathers in the scientific community" currently, does not mean that it won't be considered ground breaking in 100 years. to be clear, i'm referring to how scientists become attached to their life's work and thus biased, as opposed to anything specific to wolfram or NKS and cellular automata.
finally, Alpha will be judged when it comes out. if it's worthwhile great, if not fine, but there's not much point in trying to persuade people of something before it is out.