I don't doubt that significant progess has been made in the last five or so years. Meta papers just make me curious given my past experience: the field had ende

I don't doubt that significant progess has been made in the last five or so years. Meta papers just make me curious given my past experience: the field had ended up with so many tunable parameters that no one understood, it gave rise to whole new papers to 'learn' some arbitrary set of those parameters by a different method. The dirty secret was you were simply adding more parameters. Thus the real issue was the research field had stalled and hit a temporary dead end.