The answer is simple, but it's also one that's completely useless for anyone reading this post. What needs to happen is a gradual realignment in both the funding and hiring criteria across all of academia.

There needs to be less emphasis on quantitative metrics like citation counts, h-indices and other trivially gameable nonsense, and more emphasis on human judgment along with a set of basic criteria to provide a floor to research quality across the board (things that every good scientist should do, as opposed to things that you should relentlessly maximize). This would require the non-scientific managerial class to abrogate some of the power they now wield in the academia and relevant funding institutions, therefore is very unlikely to happen.

And - probably, most annoyingly to the HN crowd - there is nothing meaningful that technological or business disruption can accomplish here. These are systemic social problems that have been continuously and systemically building up since (approximately) WW2. At this point the only entities large enough to make a difference are probably the NIH and NSF in the U.S. and the relevant EU funding agencies in Europe. In my judgment, these are precisely the agencies least likely to institute such change, so here we are.