I think the problem is that these academics literally do not understand or appreciate the benefits of having, say, a robust test suite with CI. Software development and DevOps is an alien culture and to be fair a good proportion of software developers themselves don't really get it. It's like a professional lumberjack who regularly sharpens their saw vs a forestry researcher who doesn't realise how slowly they're chopping down trees for samples because their saw is always blunt.