As a former mathematician, I completely agree. Academic math is good stuff but you end up making too many assumptions that end up being hard to reconcile with a

As a former mathematician, I completely agree. Academic math is good stuff but you end up making too many assumptions that end up being hard to reconcile with a working system. Personally, I stopped caring much about beauty because doing work guided by some beauty heuristics didn't make me happy. Doing work that is useful to many people does make me happy; and there ends up being beauty in it somehow.