It’s trite, like a perpetual motion on the violin, but a useful textbook filler. Nowadays, DNA is the real mother lode for money makers and imperial supervisors. But hey, some cornflakes along the way to divinization, perge modo!
Sure it’s trite. So is the movie Citizen Kane, because it broke ground on so many movie-making conventions that we take for granted today. It’s a ho-hum flick now, but that’s because we’re used to seeing what was new back then.