As others have offered, there is no "need" for anything in particular. It's a-okay if you do not care for it. Plenty of people live rewarding lives without any

As others have offered, there is no "need" for anything in particular. It's a-okay if you do not care for it. Plenty of people live rewarding lives without any explicit quest. Plenty of people accidentally live in alignment with what is often understood to be the ground of Being, and in this alignment, avoid causing unnecessary suffering. I'm just going to spitball, as this exercise feels useful for me to clarify my own thoughts: One beautiful thing is that the truths pointed to by what is called enlightenment provide clues as to why the work of Godel, Turing, and Wittgenstein all seem to point to inherent limitations in conceptual frameworks. One "benefit" is that it dissolves intractable epistemic problems. It dissolves the problem of morality and ethics, without devolving to nihilism or depending on some particular ideological framework. It provides a basis for Being which goes beyond ideology. Actions to take around questions of justice and equality become much more obvious (from a personal POV) I offer this lightly: the questions raised by the possibility of enlightenment are at the foundation of all existence, and in a sense of sub-specie aeternitatis, it is of little use to understand facts about the World without a sound metaphysical basis. Enlightenment reveals the ways in which one's beliefs are limiting. Through particular conceptual lenses, many things seem like unqualified goods. Yet, wisdom reveals that any such position is inherently limited. The concepts of good and evil dissolve. Compassion is awakened. The enlightened one brings an end to the cycles of unconscious suffering in the world that they inadvertently cause through their mistaken beliefs.