That’d be like criticizing the development of calculus because it could be applied to the development of atomic bombs. This is first and foremost a mathematical

That’d be like criticizing the development of calculus because it could be applied to the development of atomic bombs. This is first and foremost a mathematical result. When people come up with a new algorithm for the orienteering problem it’s not primarily because they want to be better at orienteering; the same applies here. Your comment is well-written and almost totally irrelevant.