Dudeee how far up your hind do you need to be to nit even appreciate the groundwork being laid out?

Like imagine Einstein without access to geometry work. You had others point you to number theory. What about Boole's algebra.

There is a pretty big list of seemingly useless pure math things suddenly finding a very practical use. Sometimes quite a bit later too. And we have no way of knowing beforehand.

And it's fine to not want to do such work yourself. But to dismiss it is, well, not very thoughtful.