Exactly. A very little of it is basic and vast majority of it simply usual development projects that you have to do anyway. This is similer to big tech who oftn

Exactly. A very little of it is basic and vast majority of it simply usual development projects that you have to do anyway. This is similer to big tech who oftne claims massive expenditure in "R&D" but R part typically gets 1% and D part gets 99%. For reference NSF is less than $8B, a chump change for US GDP of $18T.