@amoroso everything that is not cosmology, black holes or exoplanets has it REALLY hard in the media. We've done a lot of progress in recent decades understanding stellar evolution, especially massive stars and the role of binarity (or generally multiplicity) of stellar system. But this is harder to sell than "the biggest black hole" (done one of those myself, it's a cool result!) or "rugby-ball shaped exoplanet".
(Though take this with a grain of salt since I work on massive stars myself!)