Well, String Phenomenology is a thing [1]... although more recently they appear to have to switched away from studying the frankly gargantuan set of viable vacu

Well, String Phenomenology is a thing [1]... although more recently they appear to have to switched away from studying the frankly gargantuan set of viable vacua in favour of examining the even larger set of non-viable models [2]. And the choice to take research in that direction is just somehow just so quintessentially string theorist. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_phenomenology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_phenomenology [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swampland_(physics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swampland_(physics)