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You have been misinformed. The original researchers made multiple forms of the trolley problem to research the effects of different scenarios on people's moral reasoning. Since then there have been dozens of forms of the trolley problem on surveys and research papers. The entire point is to change the scenario.
Even the "classic" dilemma that you're used to with the man being on the side of the tracks with a switch is a variation on the original trolley problem which had the person being the trolley operator inside the trolley.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
You can't just make up rules about not making up rules man. That's not how any of this works.