I Feel Like Research These Days People Want To Do Things That Are “relevant” And They’ll Gain Traction.

I feel like research these days people want to do things that are “relevant” and they’ll gain traction. And yeah I get that research has to be relevant I guess. And tbh I feel myself falling into that hole too cause your ideas need to be remarkable to be accepted into a PhD program yk? But it’s like I don’t want to stick to one “genre” or field of research. I want to dig into things that interest me or pique my interest? But I also want my work to mean something that even if a random person who’s not into research picks it up they’ll throughly enjoy the research? Idk