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You’re probably right with the last sentence, but having a social narrative that “something is being done” helps number go up (sure more coins engulfed by wall street wrappers but also more ideological users to run nodes and build circular economies).
Many potential capital allocators have avoided Bitcoin because it’s not considered quantum safe.
I'm sympathetic to this approach, but I also think that the longer there is serious work being done on cryptography that might be useful in the event that quantum does turn out to be an issue, the better. The worst case scenario in my mind is that we rush the introduction of new cryptography to bitcoin and it ends up having vulnerabilities. So if there are people who do work on it now and it gets poked at and hardened it seems like a positive to me.
When a quantum computer is able to factor a 2-digit number, I'll maybe consider reading a headline.
I'll think about reading a quantum white paper when it can factor a 24-bit number. Until then "quantum" is nothing more than a fundraising boogey man.