Great essays, shows that Fields Medal is doing its desired effects [personal opinion after reading].
For those that didn't read until the end, recipient of Fields Medal had a far greater "Cognitive Mobility" in which they opened new fields of research.
Those fields may as well be dead end, and even if they aren't their production in terms of papers are probably slow to ramp up. But those are the research we need as compared to certain fields, where the amount of papers being churned out arguably have a negative effect.
For those that didn't read until the end, recipient of Fields Medal had a far greater "Cognitive Mobility" in which they opened new fields of research.
Those fields may as well be dead end, and even if they aren't their production in terms of papers are probably slow to ramp up. But those are the research we need as compared to certain fields, where the amount of papers being churned out arguably have a negative effect.