This maps onto my experience with an Horizon2020 project. I don't want to say that it is wasted money, rather just point out that it feels like a spray&pray app

This maps onto my experience with an Horizon2020 project. I don't want to say that it is wasted money, rather just point out that it feels like a spray&pray approach. We travelled a lot, produced a lot of excel and word documents in a very inefficient way, the outcome, despite being the project "successful", is completely useless and will never see the light as a commercial product, not even as a useful blueprint for other organizations. All in all it was a depressing experience, knowing that we were going on thanks to taxpayer money. R&D is good and I don't want to bash on these initiatives... I guess I just ended up in a project that didn't go anywhere.