In this specific case I think it might be beneficial if you can spend a lot of money on gathering training material and tweaking the network. But then again someone here mentioned the quality 4chans fake porn has reached, so maybe I'm wrong after all.
People are motivated by money, governments pay little and there’s no way to get rich working there so it doesn’t make that much sense.
Around 1960 space flight, supersonic flight.
More recently hypersonic flight, and we don’t really know becase people back in WWII had no idea.
And this sticking to the spreadsheet concept, which is very limiting.
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Contrast for example Tableau -- it's a great idea and generated a lot of enthusiasm for a while, but never quite took off as an office package one needs to have. The normal awkwardness of its first versions is still there; they don't have the deep <whatever> that the Excel team has.
In comparison, Excel can do that too (just worse), but it can also solve equations, do your company's bookkeeping, and pretty much every other task that relies mostly on numbers.
I would argue Open/LibreOffice Calc comes fairly close to Excel if you ignore the worse user interface (which is fair in the original assertion that it's "mostly polish and small incremental improvements")
considering that's a major part of "better" that's big ask!
Yes, Adobe do have some remarkable algorithms that would be difficult to replicate (e.g. heal brush and content aware fill) but these are a small minority of Adobe's software advantage.
The one that irritates me the most is vector drawing programs: open source programs (and even paid competitors) just can't touch Adobe Illustrator for the sort of work I do. I'm sure at least 50 percent of it is familiarity and muscle memory, but I've desperately tried switching to a few different options like Inkscape or Affinity and left wildly disappointed.
I would be interested in a Lightroom alternative if anyone can recommend one though.