Yes, but the premise of this article is that it describes a situation in which that payoff is visible. I don't see any visible payoff at that link. If I tried t

Yes, but the premise of this article is that it describes a situation in which that payoff is visible. I don't see any visible payoff at that link. If I tried to use it to argue for basic research, I would expect skeptics to propose the possibility that applying the "lessons learned" has lead to more problems. It says that for "some unknown reason" things are getting worse after applying those lessons...