>noone bashed string theory for failing to make useful predictions That stuck out for me. Lots of people have criticized string theory for exactly that reason.

>noone bashed string theory for failing to make useful predictions That stuck out for me. Lots of people have criticized string theory for exactly that reason. A theory that makes not testable predictions is not a scientific theory. Mathematics doesn't have to have real word applications. But science has to make predictions that can be tested experimentally.