This 'triviality' issue has reminded me of Grothendieck's "two styles in mathematics": http://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf http://www.landsburg.

This 'triviality' issue has reminded me of Grothendieck's "two styles in mathematics": http://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf http://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf