I mean, I tend to agree, but on the other hand it takes a certain kind of curiosity to care deeply about things that don't affect our lives in the slightest. You could argue that astronomy and cosmology is important today, but during most of evolution it really didn't matter. I guess it started paying dividends for planning the crops and harvest etc, but still that is quite late. So in that sense, caring about e.g. disease, biology and our immediate lives here on earth seems a lot more "sane".