The Midpoint on the way to IOP Control

Nearly all health research efforts (and this forum is definitely a health research effort) have their midpoint marked when they can answer the simple question:

"Why is this problem really a good thing?!"

The answers to these questions usually come in the form of an understanding why we would already be dead if not for the "problem".

While I haven't read every single posting here, I have read many of them, and I see a possible midpoint emerging from them. I would enjoy seeing comments and observations that confirm/deny this picture. Consider...