It's a selection/survivor bias going on too. The public doesn't want to read about some incremental gain in some subfield they have no expertise in. People inte

It's a selection/survivor bias going on too. The public doesn't want to read about some incremental gain in some subfield they have no expertise in. People interested in those are reading the journals and preprints and mailing lists and such. Unfortunately, that means what typically makes it to widely shared mainstream science news is the clickbait sensationalist marketing hype. Sober analysis isn't good for TikTok...