Then explain the herd mentality if they were truly all trying all posibilities. No, same old same old. Pharma is not removed from the usual incentives of capitalism. FWIW the line about treatments not cures is pretty much a direct quote from a product manager at a major pharma company I heard speak at an internal presentation. Straight from the horses mouth.
"Is curing patients a sustainable busines model?" - Goldman 2018
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/goldman-sachs-asks-in-bi...
Many of the biggest medical innovations have come from publicly funded university researchers, which then license or give away their findings to private businesses.