Isn’t what you describe simply the consequence of picking low hanging fruits? it’s only seminal papers that involve multiple ideas together, and even those hav

Isn’t what you describe simply the consequence of picking low hanging fruits? it’s only seminal papers that involve multiple ideas together, and even those have a lot of mathematics involved to make them stand up to scrutiny tests. I’d even go as far as to argue that if you took any of the highly cited papers of the last 5 years in ML, 20 years or so back, they’d be even more groundbreaking than that time’s seminal work.