Well, the CASP14 results do speak for themselves. Protein structure prediction is not necessarily of great meaning to drug discovery or biology, but they pretty much blew everyone else out of the water in a fair contest. For that reason, they deserve praise.
It's a little like making a robot that is very, very good at something pointless (say, using a yo-yo). Who knows where it might lead, but if they make the best damned yo-yo bot in the world, they deserve whatever praise they get from the yo-yo community.
