Then perhaps we should start funding fusion research above the "fusion never" levels?
Honestly, had we put the stupid amounts of money that we subsidize fossil fuels with (think about how much government funding went into the specialized drilling that became fracking) into fusion research, we'd likely have it by now.
Fusion is multiple decades ahead of us still, even with more funding, but we need to take action this decade if we want to have an impact on global warming.
There will never be one solitary erg of commercially viable energy from Tokamak fusion. Costs are already known to be sky-high, many many times that of e.g. current nuke, which has always been quite a lot more expensive than all the alternatives.
Current government-funded fusion research is a jobs program for hot-neutron physicists to maintain a population to draw on for weapons work. It actually steals all the funding from what could be viable projects.
Honestly, had we put the stupid amounts of money that we subsidize fossil fuels with (think about how much government funding went into the specialized drilling that became fracking) into fusion research, we'd likely have it by now.