I wasn't suggesting that research can no longer exist, just that the OC's whole point was that this field is no longer about just research and attempting to ope

I wasn't suggesting that research can no longer exist, just that the OC's whole point was that this field is no longer about just research and attempting to open up the discussion to a broader interest group, of software engineers, based on that premise of mass scaling. Since the GP was a direct reply to the comment with that premise, asking about the kinds of work and technology, it seemed to me like a borderline-disingenuous to respond with something related to research and not mass scaling, especially since that response was "all of it".