I looked up the P5 report and looked at the high and midlevel descriptions. Frankly I was underwhelmed. The Rubin and IceCube Two jumped out as interesting an

I looked up the P5 report and looked at the high and midlevel descriptions. Frankly I was underwhelmed. The Rubin and IceCube Two jumped out as interesting and exciting but the former is astrophysics with its own decadal priorities. The latter transcends particle physics due to the multimessenger aspect. The rest? Few specifics on small to midsize research. The details are for big projects that ask "What could we do for $xB?" vs. "What do we need to do and how much might it cost?" It's 90+ years since Zwicky's dunkle Materie, 50+ since Rubin's rotation curves. How many more deep undergound dark matter detectors can be or should be supported? MOND may be imperfect but nothing has yet panned out on the particle side, either. Overall, it reads like no one thought through the possibility that LHC would find no new physics beyond the very expected Higgs. Astrophysics can access energies impossible on earth, lab scale experiments may probe theories (or aspects of them). That leaves traditional big science particle physics in a jam.