Is there any point in reading about Inter-universal Teichmüller theory (unless one works on it)?

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Is there any point in reading about Inter-universal Teichmüller theory (unless one works on it)?

Does IUT have any applications known yet?

I'm mainly interested in it for intellectual curiosity though, not "in order to do something with it". But it could be a waste of time.