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Ah I just learned this term "diegetic" that might click for you! Diegetic broadly means if the element exists within the fictional world or not.
I think the "can't suspend my disbelief that the characters can just burst into song" is directly related to diegetic vs non-diegetic music in musicals.
Most musicals feature non-diegetic so the idea is it's inner monologue like thoughts or desires, not that is actually in universe. The same as like a narrator or internal thoughts when in a book.