I’m Guessing He Never Worked In the Real World
When this engineer was asked why build quantum computers he responds:
I’m probably wrong but after he said that my first thought was this guys has been living off state grant money for his entire life. Anyway he seems like a nice guy and it’s nice that he is excited by his work.
Clearly people who must operate in the real world will have to translate his findings into something useful since he’s just doing it for fun.