Nothing like feeling like your stated career ambitions are too ambitious, and then running into someone whose project description is like "yeah, that's one of many points in the infinite parameter space of ideas we're exploring."
The Internet is great.
When you shift your perception of the status quo from "natural language works perfectly" to "natural language has faults" you very quickly start noticing all the different ways language and text fails us, sometimes in grave and fundamental ways.
Text is too sterile. Compared to the range of beauty, the range of emotions, the range of feelings, the range of vibes humans are capable of feeling — drowning in — text barely even registers. Text will become whatever humans were stuck with before we invented ways to communicate in full-fidelity. Our job is to invent it.