Most of the tech tree will never be explored by anyone at all, which is exactly why the choice of which direction to explore matters so much.

Um, there's just too many interesting ways of combining things. There's too many sort of deep ideas waiting to be uh, discovered and when it you know, not only we, but but nobody ever is going to to discover most of them. So, choices about how to make how to do the exploration actually matter quite a bit.