>> How do we create more people like this? Very few companies or other management structures would ever sanction this kind of work. They might recognize it as

>> How do we create more people like this? Very few companies or other management structures would ever sanction this kind of work. They might recognize it as important, but it's too big and open ended to "allocate resources to". So for this to happen you need to pay people for more of a general "make stuff better for us" role. Even that's hard because you never know what you're going to get.