I have been involved in Software engineering research a bit, even have a first-author short paper. I was struck by just how much pointless, low-effort papers th

I have been involved in Software engineering research a bit, even have a first-author short paper. I was struck by just how much pointless, low-effort papers there are in this domain. People have been researching about bug prediction for over two decades now, and judging by the paper quantity, this isn't a niche area. Yet how many organizations do actually employ those systems in real-world? Can't comment on industry, but I haven't found a single open-source program that does that [1]. Now I know "most papers are pointless" is a common complaint in science, specially in my area of focus- machine learning. But I can't shake the feeling that the situation is particularly worse in software engineering related academic research. [1] I saw Mozilla attempt it, but not sure if it's currently in use.