[rramadass]

Exactly! This is how it should be.

Researchers/Scientists with their hard earned PhDs should only concentrate on doing cutting-edge "researchy" stuff. It is hard enough that they should not be asked to learn all the intricacies/problems inherent in Software Development. That is the domain of a "Professional Software Engineer".

There is now in fact a new class called "Research Software Engineer" who are Software Developers working in Research developing code specific to their needs - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01516-2 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_software_engineering