This is a pretty good summary of the crippling loss of ambition in the industry. It's far preferable to commit to perpetual failure, lacking any and all ambition whatsoever, than to try anything that might work. It encourages ambiguous definitions with loosely stated goals that can only be assessed in the form of opinions. The industry exists for itself, is no longer concerned with its own output, or rather its output is now its own continuation in its present state. A perpetual failure reactionary machine.
Meanwhile literally 100% of medicine's achievements have come out of biomedical research, but it's falling out of favor faster than pumpkin sales in November. It's emblematic of our current era, but damn is it still one of the weirdest things happening in the world right now. It's like this industry has turned self-cannibalistic, it feasts on itself to continue its existence feasting on itself.
