[mnky9800n]

Your argument is essentially that scientists, especially early career scientists, have very little room for failure. I would argue a central problem is that many grants for early career researchers have award rates below 10%. This is problematic because at some point why would you blow away a month of work to write a proposal that you gave a tiny chance of receiving. If the award rates were 20-30%, then you have more room for failure in the interim between grant awards.