It’s about time they really focused on antibiotics that attack bacteria in more than one way to prevent resistance.
Recent research has led scientists believe that some infectious bacteria quorum signal to each other and that when they reach a critical mass become much more virulent. In other circumstances they signal to one another to go into a dormant cyst phase to protect themselves when being overwhelmed. Short circuiting this process could also lead to better antibiotics.
I think that this multi-step process might be useful in other applications as well.
What immediately comes to mind is the several bacterial and viral infections transmitted by ticks, many of which are only recently being discovered.
Some of these infections have no known medical treatment.
While it might not be the "Silver Bullet", it may open up other avenues of usefulness in medical treatment, since it is still in the experimental stage.