I agree that rigorous logic shouldn't be assumed to get us closer to Ultimate Objective Truth than other forms of reasoning. It just gets us whatever peculiar oddments we can discover through rigorous logic, so far, here in our local, parochial patch of reality. Things that seem crucial powerful theories (theorems, whatever) to us here and now may not seem that way in the future, and arriving at them through logic doesn't provide a royal road to the Ultimate.
This means abstract mathematics is rooted in our current cultural concerns. I guess I'm saying that it isn't really useful or really abstract, but I also agree with the other poster that people can and should do what they like.