Interesting analysis from my favorite severe no nonsense physics youtuber gal (who also used to randomly post vids of her doing cover songs to peoples' general confusion lol).
Good bit at the end speculating on the material economic basis for this (useless) way of doing science. People make careers on this fluff that amounts to nothing.
Well duh. They have to have make-work, though! Otherwise the future would be poverty and unemployment for these people.
And yet these very same people are vehemently against make-work for the lower classes. They must do something useful! We need our back rubs, our dicks sucked, our code written! They can't just take our money without being productive! That's a crime against neoliberalism.