But that doesn't say anything about the person in academia who writes a speculative generic research paper about a way too simple implementation of a decision t

But that doesn't say anything about the person in academia who writes a speculative generic research paper about a way too simple implementation of a decision tree. I don't want to demean that accomplishment, but for me it would be hard to have sustained excitement from that. Also I think that a counter argument is that just because the initial work of X, Y and Z algorithm were sketched out in academia, they still very much so would have been scaled in industry once the actual need has been found for them.