Someone needs to learn survivorship bias. The reason a tiny fraction of successful experimentalists are older than a tiny fraction of successful theoreticians is the theory guys can implement the monkeys on typewriters and the one who writes Shakespeare accidentally can be anointed as genius. However the experimentalist has to actually make something work, which takes a lot longer to learn how to do.
Also money. Doesn't take long to fundraise for printer toner cartridges, but some physics experiments require a long fundraising stage.