What is the point of Philosophy?

What I mean is, what is the end goal? Is it just to be respected as being “smart” or to be seen as having the correct answers to life’s most important questions?<br>I had a debate with a friend once where he thought being a professor of philosophy was like being a physicist but with the important questions of life. I told him that he was naive in thinking that so I decided to look at the current topics of interest in the field, and what I found were topics like whether or not philosophers were activists, is behavioral finance a threat to neoclassical economics, and whether or not computers can think. If we were truly like physicists, wouldn’t we be trying to figure out the universe and its mechanisms? That’s what they do. They try to figure out all the things and try to make models for how they work.<br>Scientists are trying to find answers that will help us live better lives, philosophers are trying to show everyone how smart they are.<br><br>How does that add up to anything of weight?