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I love when scientists mock each other
(thelemmy.club)
So I joust found this brilliant scientific paper called "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" which mocks quantum computer researchers for optimising factorisation of prime numbers in a way, so that it is as easy as possible to calculate them with a quantum computer. While you may not understand the technical or mathematical explanations they include a lot of jokes and its very funny to read. One of the jokes is,that they call quantum computers a "physics experiment", which is the explanation behind this joke.
Been a while since I read this paper, but:
The main criticism in this paper is, that the problems are asked and preprocessed in a way that makes them almost trivial. Basically, CPU manufacturers could boast about 10000% faster prime number factorization, if all they were doing was prime number factorization of 2^n^
They even suggest, that instead of solving known and borderline trivial problems, quantum computers should instead be evaluated using random problems.
^Also, they should thank their dog in the acknowledgement section^
Its basically what you said. They searched for ways to optimize the problem to the solution and not the solution to the Problem.
Fair enough - sounds more like a problem with the specific study than with the quantum computer