No. The reason why computation in P is considered tractable is because the exponents in polynomial coefficients in complexity analyses tend to be small. Linear-, quadratic-, and cubic-time algorithms dominate P, and we pride ourselves on finding ways to reduce those exponents. Some problems in P, like matrix multiplication and context-free parsing, have been analyzed to death this way.
We give importance to this question because it is open, it is big, it relates to many other parts of computer science, it has real-world implications, etc. The fact that you don't think this question is important likely means that you don't have the complexity-theoretic background required to appreciate the stark deepness of the question. This isn't bad, but it's myopic.
We give importance to this question because it is open, it is big, it relates to many other parts of computer science, it has real-world implications, etc. The fact that you don't think this question is important likely means that you don't have the complexity-theoretic background required to appreciate the stark deepness of the question. This isn't bad, but it's myopic.