I don't think that's exclusive to academia. Business also need to choose wisely when to make ugly POCs for prototyping and when to create robust products / lib

I don't think that's exclusive to academia. Business also need to choose wisely when to make ugly POCs for prototyping and when to create robust products / libs to save money long term. It's not uncommon for labs to have frameworks and internal libs to aid prototyping and experimenting.