The people who make hiring decisions are just doing so in an incredibly hiring-manager way. You look around and see success without the option, you look up to the NFL and see success without the option, the 5 time running national champs of FCS don't run the option, there's no reason to think it's special. GT has had some great seasons with it, but on the whole it hasn't improved our win percentage all that much from when we didn't have it. We're also a very small sample size. People treat it like it has a lot of risk simply because it has a lot of unknowns in the modern environment and there are better-known alternatives.
We could end up changing the perspective about it if we were able to sustain high levels of success. For some reason, CPJ was able to raise Navy's year-in-year-out potential quite a bit, where we've been a little less consistent, albeit with way harder competition.