But you would agree that the sport won't just die if we lose any particular player or coach right? Likewise research is so competitive/redundant nowadays that

But you would agree that the sport won't just die if we lose any particular player or coach right? Likewise research is so competitive/redundant nowadays that there are always multiple labs vying for the same results. If we lose any particular lab we will be set back at best a few months. (For another example from history, despite the vast contributions by Newton, even if he didn't exist, we would still have discovered calculus at approximately the same time frame)