I thought profits meant "the amount of income that remains after accounting for all expenses, debts, additional income streams, and operating costs."
Like, this is the primary goal; any other uses of profit are valid only with the expectation that they will allow the owners to extract more money later.
Sure, gross profit would not include either of those expenses. But operating profit would subtract research and development (e.g. the salaries and bonuses of the engineers working on the next process node) and depreciation on new factory (i.e. the cost of the new factory spread out over its useful lifetime - though it doesn’t include a factory under construction). Then you subtract interest and taxes to get to net profit. And TSMC has net profit margins of 39% in 2020!