What if the real problem is the philosophers miss a lot of the foundational issues as well?

For instance, would a spiritual absolute be an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, or the essence of sentience, from which we rise?

Ignoring the fact that ideals are aspirational, while absolutes are elemental would seem to be an epic fail. For instance, are good and bad some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, or the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental? When good is assumed to be aspirational, rather than elemental, all the higher order complexity, nuance and subjectivity is suspect, in the race to the bottom, of us versus them.

Where are the philosophers? Discussing abstractly anecdotal trolley problems?