Never say never.
Announcements of doom appear every now and then, the content depending on what the current perceived crisis is. It’s as if crises are surprising, as if the whole of human history hasn't been a lurch from one crisis to the next, over and over again.
Aristotle's conception doesn't seem all that different to cartesian dualism, or any other sort of mind/body, mind soul dualism. The sort of idea that's still quite common. It makes a kind of sense, as in his use of a country and its constitution as an analogy, the country is the material entity...
Sure, but what Aristotle meant by essence isn't the same as what Plato meant, so passive or not the intellect in Aristotle's conception doesn't correspond with the notion of an immaterial intellect defined as such through its ability to 'know' the essence of things in their ultimate 'form'.
Things are worse than I thought, it seems. Once Trump has excreted enough digested KFC to fire up the MAGA portal, I may consider travelling on the Mormon-MAGA Jesus boat to alternative facts dimension 4. I've heard it all makes sense when you get there.