Yes and no

“Low priority” and “first” are actually pretty different statements. “First” requires pretty authoritarian control over how people spend their time. But the statements are thrown together pretty often and people intuitively accept them. Realistically the world is a bunch of people doing their own thing, and in that world a small fraction of time and resources is spent on space. Some of this ends up being useful technology is developed for the rest of the world too. Personally I’m hopeful for stations and bases doing some of the expensive research for closed loop products and recycling but that’s still a hope and far from a certainty