Not much good to anyone, that. Brighton are still close to one dotted line, Everton made up only tiny ground on another, and for once an empty stadium felt like a small mercy.
It really was dross, not even a storm of VAR rage to drop into the teacup. There were four shots on target, apparently, but none that warranted memory space.
So it was one of those. One where the content was pretty abject but the context was really quite important and relevant to matters at both ends of the table.
In the scheme of things for Brighton, it nudged their margin of separation on the bottom three to seven points, which in consideration of their game in hand feels reasonably healthy.