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I mean honestly I can't help you if you want me to explain the importance of some random paper to you, maybe somebody else can. This is a linguistics general if you find the idea of linguistics wrong, don't come here.
You seem to think that the whole field of study is a scam, just because you don't understand a random paper on first read.
If you were to read the paper and look at the sources or the references I mentioned in the comments you would be able to understand. It is not formulated at all to be hard to understand, the opposite is true actually.

I told you in my reply to your first post that it is not going to teach you anything if you are not interested in OT/language modeling.
Do you expect to pick up a paper on astronomy or psychology and understand everything? If you are not just trolling and honestly want to understand what this is about I again recommend you read Impossible Languages by Andrea Moro,
great introduction for non-linguists.

>I only asked you what that foundation was so the rest of your sentence could make more sense to me.
Nope you clearly were out to insult me. But still this is the foundation that some (not all of us) think is there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_module

If you don't have any criticism that goes beyond "I do not understand this and I do not care to learn about it" I will honestly just ignore it. I think I have given you all the resources you need to understand what the link is about and if you think linguistics is useless by principle I honestly do not care.