Yep not knocking alphafold - Alphafold showed it could be done[1], and others have subsequently followed.

However if all the tech companies hoover up all the profits and simultaneously avoid paying the appropriate level of taxes - then the cycle of innovation isn't sustainable. As well taxes paying for that pre-competitive data, they train the next generation of PhDs.

[1] There were other groups making progress with DL based structure prediction before Alphafold, but alphafold was a leap forward.