My understanding is that theory has blasted way past observations and what we need now are more precise observations. And developing the technology capable of

My understanding is that theory has blasted way past observations and what we need now are more precise observations. And developing the technology capable of making such precise observations has immense utility outside of the particular experiment that drives their invention. Even if superparters are useless, more powerful magnets are useful. Better sensors are useful. Better data processing technology is useful. And that stuff gets invented by the people probing to find superpartners.