A thought for you that I use. Philosophy is in this way like physics. It seems that physics , rather reasonably, focuses on the new and speculative at the cutting edge such as strings and event horizons. They are of no use to most people, but every day when cooking or driving, people use essential parts of physics. The philosophy folks can do that too.

Just as an FYI, I might be able to suggest a use for philosophy you haven't heard of.... this week. I'm a biologist that studies human survival, so i looked at the current issue of population decline. Everyone agrees it is because of the cost of raising children and worries about the future... but that has always been true. So the honest people say it is the choice given to us by birth control. We don't have much instinct to have families, but we have a lot for sex and children come from that, releasing nurturing instinct along the way.

We do know though that we have nurturing instincts, part of moral instincts, because they tend to pop up near the end of people's reproductive age. How could those instincts be released before that? (I'm shortening this a lot.) Well, instincts for family are part of the larger moral instincts package. So how can it be released? Morality is a subject taught by phislophy. Teach philosophy at a grammar school age, as it was before it was crowded out by STEM... like civics, home economics, Phys Ed, etc. was, and you will release moral instincts and should get families.

As just a biologist, I might not be a deep thinker like a philosopher, but I can fake it around the dull. I've been developing what would work as a curriculum for grammar school level as part of the Strategy sequel to "Genetics For A new Human Ecology".