beside the point

Except as a form of hypnotic relaxation, even watching seems beside the point.

Whether Patel believes in QAnon is beside the point.

Despite being a family whose lives often center around food by virtue of running a restaurant, they tackle the holiday not with the polished reverence of a cooking magazine, but with the messy, absurd energy of a family who somewhere along the way realized that perfection is not only unattainable, but also entirely beside the point.

That the ruling only affects around 1,600 voters is beside the point when it is a "wrongheaded decision in light of clear federal law," concurred Marc E. Elias, a lawyer and founder of Democracy Docket.

“Etiquette is kind of beside the point. It’s like reading a ransom note and going, ‘This cursive is just so lovely.