Depends on your understanding of human knowledge I guess? People talk about the frontier of human knowledge and if your view of knowledge is like that of a unique human genius pushing forward the frontier then yes - it'd be stuck. But if you think of knowledge as more complex than that you could have areas that are kind of within our frontier of knowledge (that we could reasonably know, but don't actually know) - taking concepts that we already know in one field and applying them to some other field. Today the reason that doesn't happen is because genius A in physics doesn't know about the existence of genius B in mathematics (let alone understand their research), but if it's all imbibed by "The Model" then it's trivial to make that discovery.