https://archive.is/20230131195102/https://iai.tv/articles/21st-century-metaphysics-leaving-fantasy-behind-auid-2367

So what can be considered here is that metaphysics is back after the 20th century whether analytic or continental, in the sense that not only is it not avoidable, but with this comes the recognition that it can't just go off into speculative fantasy. It can't claim to paint the true ans definitive picture of reality. It would be able to intervene in the space that science is not equipped to produce.

The new metaphysics: "is not presented as an ultimate description of reality but as a means to refine and improve our ability to intervene in the world and provide an account of how its claims, and the claims of language and science, can be understood and in some cases prove powerful even though they do not reference or describe reality." So it would produce a possible picture of reality for consideration and act like thought heuristic I'd say, not as an end all be all, but as a framing to tie together what might be isolated understandings in a narrative in a partial closure for consideration. All this eventually comes to effect our pictures of reality and our worldviews, how we act and think in the world.