Macron is not wrong to try pushing back the retirement age -- I recall that a vast majority of the French realize that the state pension fund becoming insolvent is an inevitability if some sort of reform isn't implemented. But here is the real kicker -- Macron was dumb to force the reforms through despite massive public resistance, and the French public were also dumb to refuse the reforms despite knowing it needs to be reformed.
France's average life expectancy is 82 years old. Their previous retirement age is 62, and many people regularly work beyond that age anyway for one reason or another. It was already obvious to everyone that the State does not have enough money to fund the state pension.
So you know things are not going to work anymore. The boss proposes some mild changes to "fix" (more like mitigate or delay) the problem, and you refuse those changes. What gives?!
This goes back to people being non-sensible. I would never rule out a miracle or some sort of White Knight swooping in to save the day, but I would not rely on those happening either.