I see the main task of philosophy as being finding principles that improve our lives:

https://medium.com/inserting-philosophy/what-is-philosophy-9c9dd00c6afe

Understanding reality and how we perceive it is crucial to that task.

I too find logical positivism repulsive, and I have a strong aversion to most analytical philosophy. This is a field that too often ignores most of the history of philosophy and denies much of human experience. The logical positivists were definitely the low point, but I still encounter people who haven't learned the lesson that positivism failed and still fails to accomplish anything meaningful.