Maybe. That is how many of humanities advancements have been realized. People being unsatisfied and believing there can be a better way, believing there can be a better explanation, etc..

Even so, I do worry about the future. I fear, for multiple reasons, that we risk entering a new kind of dark age.

The combination of the power of the internet to propagate disinformation and quackery at greater speed and scale than it is debunked. The development of language model AI's which enable at scale the hallucination of meaningless content masquerading as legitimate content.

The article here captures some of my thoughts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126450