[UncleOxidant]

"outsiders" can often bring a new perspective. There are many people who overlap both the hardware and software worlds (I consider myself one of them having started out in hardware and then moving over to the software side in EDA). Without those kinds of people you wouldn't have the kinds of EDA tools you have now.

> misplaced attention from outsiders and science/research community.

Come join the software side and work on the tools you want to see.