However, there is only a handful of people who will ever really use math to make a significant impact for our species

90% of the world problems are not really math problems but 10% which are, those problems would change a lot of world. And so math should be left alone for those who want to destroy their social life, normal life to churn out answers for the humanity. I used to hate math, still do but I have done engineering and learned enough science to respect math.