Kinda but often times such research isn’t even “waiting on the shelf”. You can see that in the Iceberg paper which describes how earlier constructions optimized for PMEM Hw did a bad job because they were built against simulated hardware. In practice you need to actually iterate with real designs.

I doubt such designs will find practical uses (iceberg maybe but the pure math designs seem unlikely).

In 200 years this is going to be like when we discover yet another proof of Euler or Gauss, 20 years after a current mathematician arrived at the same result.