AGI is my field, developmental psychology is not. I am actually working on AGI infrastructure day-to-day. I am not writing papers in developmental psychology, stroke rehabilitation, or nurology.
I'm not even clear what you're saying. Should I be avoiding doing things that have any possibility of glitz associated with them? Am I incapable of accomplishing anything others might find meaningful?
NPR reports on a study giving volprioc acid to adults and training them on pitch (singing):
Brain plasticity is useful for a whole lot more than learning pitch. As the article notes it would be invaluable for training one's ear to pick up sounds of foreign languages, but also it seems reasonable to this commentator that high levels of plasticity during rationality training or other forms of self-development would result in more transformative results.