Don't want to stay around to do the boring bits required to make a working product that serves a real world use case? Go into academia! Not making a generalizat

Don't want to stay around to do the boring bits required to make a working product that serves a real world use case? Go into academia! Not making a generalization about academics, it's just that academia is one of the few places you can carve out a place to just work on interesting things and get paid for it.