Acting in empiricism, convincing oneself of the illusion, has merits for developmental and immersion reasons.
But we should always remember that it is just one perspective.
The material has merit as well. It's really just about balance. If our material measures help agitate our growth, with respect to a balance, then the material also has merit.
Some things must be pushed down for others to rise up, though.
Given the times, I think it's apt to start dissolving materialism, and consider empiricism as simply "one way to look at it"
Nature is doing everything you see to itself.
We go one way, develop in this way, synthesize what we discover and learn, then dissolve the structure that housed this platform of discovery, and begin to create a new one.