Yes, people often mention the number scientific citations that mention AlphaFold as "proof" of its value. Unfortunately, padding researcher CVs is not a net pos

Yes, people often mention the number scientific citations that mention AlphaFold as "proof" of its value. Unfortunately, padding researcher CVs is not a net positive for humanity, and so "moving academia further ahead" (by what metric?) is not necessarily a desirable or worthwhile goal if your definition of "ahead" is sufficiently warped as such. Perhaps, one day, the first real human being will be helped by medicine that couldn't have been found/created without AlphaFold. Unless a scientific endeavor is actually useful to humanity, who cares if it "moves ahead"?