"Pure" philosophy.

Most important fields of philosophy became sciences. Most things that haven't seem to be focused on pondering problems that probably have no solution, and might only seem to make sense (or not) in the first place because of the vocabulary they are couched in.

When you have read the Dialogues of Plato, and consider how brilliant Socrates and his arguments were, and that in modern times things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair are possible, I definitely think the field has taken a turn for the worse.

I think part of this might be because there is a temptation to think that since very difficult problems are often more important then difficult problems, and that difficult problems are very often more important than moderate problems, that impossible problems must be the most important of all, when really perhaps impossible problems are the least important to consider.

According to Steven Hawking: "Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge."

To take something from an article here: https://philosophynow.org/issues/59/Richard_Feynman_Accidental_Philosopher "Feynman’s most annoying brush with philosophy occurred at an ethics conference. His group was asked to discuss “The ethics of inequality in the fragmentation of knowledge.” Feynman wanted to frame a clear question first, but the others saw no need. They wrote their report in a pretentious academic style which frustrated Feynman, so he decided to translate it into plain English. The first opaque sentence reduced to “People read.” He was wise to a ruse many scholars in the humanities use – cloaking ordinary ideas in ornate verbiage, as if their aim were more to appear erudite than to communicate useful information." ... "a trend which has since only increased among the literati and the humanities intelligentsia."

Something I think we can all find on nearly a daily basis, criticized (thankfully) by many on reddit. The idea that you can make elaborate arguments couched in arcane vocabulary, that contradict simple truths like not holding one person accountable for the actions of another. The goal of the field seems more and more not to create things that people can understand and find useful, but things that they can not understand so as to remain beyond criticism.