As a meditator, personally I'm a little sickened by the 'science of meditation.' From my view, meditation is ultimately (or at least often) about doing nothing

As a meditator, personally I'm a little sickened by the 'science of meditation.' From my view, meditation is ultimately (or at least often) about doing nothing. Limiting, reducing our judgments and reasoning mind. So applying logic and benefits and sticks and carrots to me is actually antithetical to the practice. E.g.: you're anxious and want to get better, so you obsess about self-help and ways to get better. Some pop-sci author describes meditation as one such path. You make it your new obsession and think about how much you ought to be meditating but aren't. When you're meditating, you worry that you aren't doing it right such that you'll get the benefits. There is of course an argument that this popsci helps bring people to something that's good for them, and for this I guess I'm ok with it. But it's annoying to me that meditation has become part of the corporate capitalist moneymaking, anxiety-provoking system that ultimately, it's actually completely unrelated to.