Oh, sorry about the confusion. I realized afterwards that you may have actually described how it should instead of the how it is. Maybe my English is faulty, bu

Oh, sorry about the confusion. I realized afterwards that you may have actually described how it should instead of the how it is. Maybe my English is faulty, but I think it was important to stress this for people outside of academia, it could be misleading otherwise. Otherwise, I agree almost entirely with you - I myself left academia mostly for those reasons. Whether tenure professors do write papers depend quite a bit on the field, though - I know many professors in statistics who still contribute significantly to papers written by co-authors (mostly grad students, post docs), for example.