Is novel research worth doing? It depends on why you are doing it, I suppose. The framing of the piece seems to have a lot of baked in assumptions that likely

Is novel research worth doing? It depends on why you are doing it, I suppose. The framing of the piece seems to have a lot of baked in assumptions that likely make sense if your goal is, I guess, successful career in academia. That's not the driving force behind all research. Research pursued for other reasons may get little to no press but may be successful for the metrics/goals that drove the decision.