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The GP's criticism as I read it is about paper authors not making it particularly easy to reproduce their findings.

For a long time I have criticized this too, especially for software projects, or papers that deal with machine learning models. If the things described in a paper are not reproducible, then it's basically worthless. Similar to "it works on my machine" in software engineering. Many paper authors are not software engineers, and often neither are they experts in the tooling they should be using to make their research reproducible. If this is a problem for a research team, then please, hire an engineer to ensure reproducible. It doesn't help anyone to remain ignorant towards the reproducibility issue and only shows lack of scientific discipline. Reproducibility should be on the mind of any serious researcher and there should be lectures about how to do it at universities.