As a former ML researcher, I read your quoted text and came away with the exact opposite conclusion. There is an incredible need as a community to work toward reproducible results.

Pull a researcher aside, and I bet you every one will have at least one experience of trying to reproduce some reported--sometimes even lauded--result but being unable to.

The good news is this kind of cultural fix is really invariant of compute platform or modeling framework. It's just nice that MSFT appears to be making it a priority.