Indeed. Galileo was up against a model that was much more useful and matched better with the available evidence and understanding: Often it's described as Copernicus vs Ptolemy, but while Galileo's observations conclusively destroyed Ptolemy by showing the other planets rotated around the sun, Brahe had a model where that was true, but the sun revolved around the earth, and it was functionally identical to the Copernican model except that it didn't require the earth to rotate and it was easier to calculate because it used fewer epicycles. It was Kepler that actually fixed the problem (before telescopes, even!) with epicycle-based models by making the paths ellipses, and it took the modern understanding of velocity, acceleration, and momentum which Newton perfected (neatly deriving Kepler's ellipses as well), along with experiments by a few other scientists demonstrating the coriolis effect on dropped objects to actually produce direct evidence of the earth's rotation and address the objections of Galileo's detractors (And Foucault hammered it home with his pendulum). Some of Galileo's contemporaries attempted similar experiments but failed because the effect was too small.