True, philosophy is usually impenetrable, boring, silly or all three. But that is by the default of modern philosophy, not by the fault of philosophy as such. The role of philosophy is to teach people how to live and enjoy their lives, to guide them in their pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. It is to discover what the world is, how we can tell truth from falsehood, what we are, and therefore how we should live. For all the volumes of abstruse philosophy littering our libraries, the basics of a true philosophy are childishly simple.
Reality exists, and consciousness exists.
All other values and virtues derive from this, and from the nature of man as a thinking being. And that's that. But at the base of it, is the plain fact that we all live in the real world. The rest proceeds from these. But the battle is not won.