We progressively move from the How to the Why, Philosophy being the ultimate Why?
Then again, I'm but a humble engineer so why would my opinion matter :D
for example at one time there were a bunch of weirdos arguing over some abstruse philosophical question about the fundamental nature of true logical statements, and one of them came up with the “Turing machine”.
then once it was actually built (by engineers, by way of physical and mathematical advances), it started to cause all kinds of confusion in philosophy of mind and other areas.
That's not to say Philosophy has outlived its usefulness, but... it was probably more consequential 2000, 400 or 200 years ago, in practice.
(EDIT: I should add... there is also a lot of absolute dogwank in Philosophy too... but I think that's universal for any field, tbf.)