[jollybean]

Less than 1% of 'research' ends up being commercially viable in any way.

Almost zero research is commercialized directly, in a manner that equates tech to 'product'.

There are usually enormous costs in applying research to markets - just because something 'makes a million' doesn't mean there were no costs.

As for software:

We probably need cleaner, simpler tools, better SaaS for many things.

We just can't afford to have a lot of devs doing research.

Think about the zillions in lost man hours due to Python weirdness of various kinds. It's a giant productivity sink.

Also, I hope tooling for many researchers starts to improve.

I think the target should be, in most cases, that researchers themselves have the tools available to 'do their work' without having to hire devs.