I am not against language research. For example there is one interesting research language, called 'Joy' which is the most concise of all languages I know and its simplicity inspires me. It is really fun. I just have no clue how I would write a 'usual' big business system in it because I did not develop my system development cognitive patterns on such an exotic language.
More of a limit. By historical standards you're approaching it fairly rapidly. A couple decades ago you might have been using Cobol.
Someone has to work on the stuff at the limit, in order to generate the ideas that the "real world" stuff copies.