LARRY ROMANOFF—To paraphrase Michael Lewis, “One of the qualities that distinguishes Americans from other people is their naive conviction that every foreigner wishes to be one of them, but even the most zealous Japanese patriot has no illusions that other peoples want to be Japanese”. The...
There's just no better explanation for the series of events that we do know took place and for the consistency of messaging from many opposed parties.
Occam's Razor says the raid did happen and they did kill bin Laden there and then dumped his body into the sea, exactly as the official story goes. The thing about conspiracies is that it takes just one person spilling the truth to ruin the whole thing, and given that the people that would've been involved here includes a massive list of people who actively despise America it seems unlikely there was some 'deal' they could reach with the American government to keep quiet.
It's a little bit like saying the USSR actually found Hitler alive but faked his death and sent him into hiding. Not as extreme, but similar.
Or that the moon landings were faked and the USSR just kept quiet about it for reasons.