Academics might have their own grand plans for society, but funding agencies generally want industry to take over at some point and run with it. I expect they'd

Academics might have their own grand plans for society, but funding agencies generally want industry to take over at some point and run with it. I expect they'd be happy to move on and fund something new rather than trying to compete with products that industry can provide. Personally I think RStudio is far less clunky than, say Jupyter. I still think Matlab is by far the best tool for engineering. I think having a company supporting the technology like that has generally been very beneficial. It's certainly possible they would just cause it to stagnate and milk it for cash as the technology dies out, but their business would die with it. Hence these examples have never stopped advancing.