Reminds me of how when designing software systems for companies you always start with the user access patterns otherwise you end up building some elegant stream

Reminds me of how when designing software systems for companies you always start with the user access patterns otherwise you end up building some elegant stream based system for something that only needs batch access. Pure math can be the same way in alot of ways, why invest the precious resource of human innovation getting lost in the woods? It's possible alot of pure math is just us convincing ourselves of it's value unchecked by any actual means of producing value from it. Context: used to be a pure mathematician, now an engineer.