This is interesting because on one hand, there's nothing wrong with doing this research, and they might as well. On the other, I think we are putting too much emphasis on what has been.

Sure, we had these mammoth, and these fancy birds, and the dinosaurs. So? It's gone. Let's look at the future. let's figure out what we need now (EVs, Rockets, open Internet...etc).

I am just always surprised by how much emphasis we put on bringing things from the dead, instead of actively elevating the living.