Unfortunately the skewed motivations of academia make rebuilding this instrument less attractive to scientists. If you build a new and very different instrumen

Unfortunately the skewed motivations of academia make rebuilding this instrument less attractive to scientists. If you build a new and very different instrument you can churn out a lot of papers picking the long hanging fruit on the new instrument (just whatever you discover as soon as you turn it on), you can churn out a lot of papers about the technical challenges that come up in a new and different instrument. A well understood, well established instrument type is more valuable for verifying results and discovering the things that take decades of consistent observations. ... but these don't generate many publications.