Comment by vladms

Sometimes it is good to make parallels with other things to check if proposals make sense. How would sound "go and try to steal every car out there, so that car manufacturers improve their car security" ?

For me it sounds counter-productive. I have a feeling that lately (tens of years) many people try to focus on the negatives, rather than the positives. Should we focus on the 3 amazing papers this year, cited by hundreds, that resulted in clear progress or should we complain that 100 papers are useless? Let's focus on 100 because "someone is wrong on the internet".

I did a PhD (so might have more experience) but papers are meant for dissemination. For me everybody that wants to have them "perfect"/"useful" papers imagines a system that does lots of work for them. The system could be improved, but if anything (just throwing an idea) maybe researchers should try to do research in the industry to prove themselves. Then come back after 10 year in academia (maybe with savings) so that they are more independent of "career progression". A lot of research was done (historically, >100 years ago) by rich people, not constrained by a career.