This is from an email exchange posted this morning regarding an article in The London Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physics-particles-physicists
The article, written by popular video-physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, says that exploration of the particle zoo by physicists hasn’t been all that productive lately, grabs too much attention, takes too much money, and is bad for physics.