or the academic people are not interested in putting in the effort to maintain the tool in order to get more adoption.
There are still examples where research prototypes have evolved into successful products, either as open source projects or commercial companies. The researcher needs to be passionate enough about getting adoption and real-world impact in order for this to work.
> On the flip side, industry seems to have very little interest in adopting our findings into products.
IMO, developer tools need to be wayyyy better to overcome inertia. This statement might not hold in other fields, e.g., ML/AI.