I completely agree with this and, as I said, it's obvious that more data produces better predictions, even with simple models. My point is that it looks backwards to me putting effort into finding more and better data (creating a corpus for a given subject is a challenge in itself) instead of trying to come up with a model that infers more and produces better predictions with less data. Once you have such a model then you can surely collect and feed it a lot of data to improve the output, but until then, why even bother?