Oh the preference is fine. It’s the logic of stated reason that’s flawed.
If anyone said “I want to maintain control” I wouldn’t push back at all. But that’s not what people tend to say. They couch it in the idea that a player deciding anything beyond what they already know per the rules and whatever setting details the DM has deigned to share with them is somehow anti-immersive or some similar sentiment.
But equally as anti-immersive (if not more) is the idea that there’s one creative force behind everything else in the game. That the DM’s near complete creative control of the game world is not anti-immersive at all.
So yeah… appeals to “in the real world I can’t decide X” just fail, in my eyes.
How about just trying to accept that different people have different preferences instead of trying to cast it as some kind of power play?