Yes. That's completely reasonable. It's sort of like how 100m sprinting is also a jobs program. People like watching very fast individuals compete in it and not, say, people on motorcycles.

It's actually reasonable too. I don't think math is just about results and theorems. It's also a question of the limits of what people know, how they came to know it, and how others can also understand it. It's like the difference between climbing Everest and taking a helicopter up. Both reached the top but surely the person who climbed it had different experiences that might be useful? In my opinion, most published math results are not going to have much application outside of the math community.