I really do believe that the attempt to industrialize scientific research has failed. Science cannot be done at scale. It comes from singularly focused projects

I really do believe that the attempt to industrialize scientific research has failed. Science cannot be done at scale. It comes from singularly focused projects lead by pure inquiry. I don't regret my PhD because I enjoyed achieving it, but I see it as a waste of time. There's an analogy in Software Engineering. Programmers are akin to Artisans or Craftsmen, but the industry wants and needs them to be something more like little factories. I don't think that approach makes good software, even if it's a good product. Just as I don't think the system we have created in academia doesn't produce good research, even though it makes good careers.