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Does the following highly down-voted answer not answer the question "Why does Schaefer's theorem not prove that P=NP?"? If not, why not?

Marek, V. Wiktor. Introduction to Mathematics of Satisfiability. Boca Raton; London; New-York: CRC Press, 2009, p. 310:

THEOREM 13.3 (Schaefer Theorem)
Let $Γ$ be a collection of Boolean tables. If one of conditions (1)–(6) below holds, then $CSP(Γ)$ is solvable in polynomial time. Otherwise, it is NP-complete.

If P = NP-complete, the aforementioned conditions have no bearing on the runtime:

If the conditions hold, then $CSP(Γ)$ is solvable in P = NP-complete time.
Otherwise, $CSP(Γ)$ is solvable in P = NP-complete time.

Which amounts to: "$CSP(Γ)$ is solvable in P = NP-complete time."


Review of Introduction to Mathematics of Satisfiability by M. I. Dekhtyar:

Chapter 13 ends with a proof of the well-known Shaefer dichotomy theorem which divides classes of Boolean constraints into solvable in polynomial time and NP-complete.

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