> refuse to remedy

They did not say this. They said they would not highly prioritize it. Which is, of course, reasonable: given two topics, I have little metric to prioritize learning about one over the other. I have no way to know that I am prioritizing my research adequately.

We all know what deprioritize means. But this is fine.

I would like to put the emphasis on doing this consciously. This is the important point. Too many people just do not think or know what introspection is.