I think a better framing is trying to understand biology before the microscope.

While the methods may look ridiculous to us today, the microscope doesn't just spring into being spontaneously. There needs to be a field of inquiry and ignorance that the tool evolves from in order to answer questions.

The reality that economics in 2026 is a type of folk science lacking its microscope or telescope doesn't mean the inquiry is useless.

"Economics is bullshit, the end" is not useful at all.