Should this be surprising? I'm not saying it is correct, but it is similar to the response many managers give concerning a badly needed rewrite of business soft

Should this be surprising? I'm not saying it is correct, but it is similar to the response many managers give concerning a badly needed rewrite of business software. Doing so is very risky and the benefits aren't always easy to quantify. Also, nobody wants to pay you to do that. Research is highly competitive, so no researcher is going to want to spend valuable time making a new tool that already exists even if needed if no other researchers are doing that.