This is an incomplete description of what is happening here. The world of academic research is undersupplied in funding, but massively oversupplied in researche

This is an incomplete description of what is happening here. The world of academic research is undersupplied in funding, but massively oversupplied in researchers. There is no need to add more researchers; we can't fund the ones we already have. Efforts like the one you describe are demotivating people from training in a function that we don't need more of, which is a reasonable thing to do.