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I'm not saying that people shouldn't do basic research, far from it, more that I learned that given the way basic research actually works then I had relatively little interest in actually doing it myself.

This is definitely false in many cases.

Source: I’ve worked on both.

Sure, I'm glad people do that work. But it's not for me.

> Basic research is important and has farther reaching impacts than a CRUD web app.

Those aren't the only two options and even they were, it isn't always true.