Could anyone provide their thoughts on whether physics/biophysics approaches to computation and quantitative neuroscience (or just broadly comp bio) topics are still in favor? What about in areas such as neural mechanobiology, bioenergetics, electrophysiology, etc?

Looks like the AI/ML/data people (obviously contemporary physics research of all sort uses hella computation as well), or the hardware guys, have an advantage.

It seems like a more theoretical physical/mathematical approach is not that great. Obviously I see why. But am I just hallucinating a hierarchy of how common or well regarded each niche is?