Been a youtube subscriber of Sabine Hossenfelder, and she's been banging the table about industrial science's problems, such as culture of quantity over quality, risk aversion, the thin margins that force researchers to crowd around attractive "safer" topics over passion projects, etc... It'll take a massive reorg to unlock science's past potential as research costs continue to increase (capital costs ok, but...bureacracy? waste? limited funding? politics?) while academic culture is not geared towards rewarding failure. There's too much TL;DR in the world that it'd be terrible for society to accept turning academic research into "just another job to get a paycheck." Maybe it'll take some cleanup with augmented AI to sift out the fraud and sloppiness that could be considered noise in research papers, but that's more of a cat and mouse game where fraudsters will also have the same tools available for them as well.
