Ah, ye old whataboutism canard... it seems to be forgetting that this technology would have an immense value by itself!
> True de-extinction is nowhere near possible.
I'm not sure I can parse the convoluted English here. Are we saying it's impossible? I see no evidence in the article that it is correct. Are we saying it's really hard? Sure, but no one claimed otherwise.
I am not the kind of person that tends to have starry-eyed faith into any appealing idea, and perhaps it is truly hard to "resurrect" a dead species. However it seems to me that it's obviously doable at some level: Craig Venter has created a synthetic bacterium so I don't see why a particularly simple life form can't be "de-extincted".
I realize though that multicellular organism are much harder and quite far away from our current capabilities, but impossible? I don't see why.