Yet people also rant about publish-or-perish resulting in minimum publishable unit churning. Maybe the answer is some researchers just wrote a paper, non-types

Yet people also rant about publish-or-perish resulting in minimum publishable unit churning. Maybe the answer is some researchers just wrote a paper, non-typeset spacing is pretty wasteful, and Word does a bad job at tables, rather than some deep rooted societal crisis in "high-status cathedral positions".