It's so much worse to see ML applied to problems that could surely be studied and understood mechanistically, but people are sold on using ML instead in deferen

It's so much worse to see ML applied to problems that could surely be studied and understood mechanistically, but people are sold on using ML instead in deference to buzzwords alone. The result is that they may get some model of a phenomenon, but they'll never learn a goddamn thing about why it works. What good is that?