> *everything* is transient for scientists who optimize for proof-of-concept and publish-and-forget-it paper writing.*

Which itself is a huge problem.

Happily this mindset is changing, at least in some scientific all fields. For example, in particle physics proposals a document ("data management plan") much be written describing how that unconscionable attitude will not be taken with the experiment's data and software. That said, this transient mindset and derision of real software skills is still fairly prevalent in this field.