“…Such shortcomings have prompted researchers to explore alternative theories of gravity, see, e.g., Refs. [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. Various modified theories of gravity have also been investigated in the context of inflationary cosmology, with the aim of providing better alignment between their predictions and observational data [49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59].…”