Human passion is a driver. How can that be a failure?
Newton was asked how he was able to arrive at his results, which seemed so far beyond what anyone could achieve. He answered, “By thinking on them constantly.”
When that passion is overtaken by an unceasing desire for scientific truth to replace transcendent Truth, then you set yourself up for all kinds of epistemological and ontological failures. Positivism literally became a religion utilizing the scientific method as a means to determine absolute Truth. Now we have the AI people unveiling their “Religion of the Godhead” as pure rationalist truth. Substituting or replacing immanent truth for transcendent Truth is a recipe for disaster.
Passion lies.