I would be very interested to hear your explanation of why you thought it would be disproven. I always thought the opposite.
You may or may not know of an old short story about the mathematician who “sells his soul” to the devil if the devil can prove or disprove the theorem in 3 days. The story ends with the devil returning after 3 days and admitting he did not solve the puzzle, but then shows the mathematician his notes and says, “Now if I could just prove these two lemmas….”
Ever since I first read the story (I saw it in a 1950’s magazine, but it may not have been the first time it was published) I have had an interest in the theorem.