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Do we (as humans) have a predilection for things that are unknowable? Do we lose some interest in a thing once we find out how it works? Is it "fascinating" when its workings are mysterious and is it "mundane" when its workings are well known to us?
As we learn about something, it loses its mystique. As we come to see new things that we don't know about they again have a sense of mystery about them in our minds. Could it be that this sense of mystery can become like a fantasy that we don't want to lose by learning more about a thing?
In the other direction: if we know something to be true, but then slowly remove from our knowledge facts about how they work do they regain that sense of mystery?
When we know how something works, its appearance in our minds is limited to just that: the way it works. If we don't know how something works its appearance in our minds is not limited to anything but our imagination. If we know less about a thing it can take on a new and more fantastical existence in our minds.
Ignorance doesn't have to be a lack of knowledge. It can be an embrace of the wrong knowledge. A substitution of objective reality with highly detailed fantasy. In this way, you can have the best of both worlds. You can be extremely knowledgeable (even if it is about fiction) and still have anything be possible.