This is due to the different vision of what engineers/researchers and consumers want. Researchers/Engineers want bottom up progress. They place incremental de

This is due to the different vision of what engineers/researchers and consumers want. Researchers/Engineers want bottom up progress. They place incremental development at the heart of their system. Partially since researchers have very little money. They cannot do anything that requires 100 developers. They want a low hurdle rate, a low barrier to entry. To get started and make visible progress. Engineers are constantly demanding progress. They want solutions that are state of the art, for various different reasons. The lots of small, incremental improvements to keep the cutting edge. Consumers want the complete opposite. Consumers want whatever ecosystem has the most money and progress invested into it. Then the consumer want it to never change. Ever. They don't want to invest capital expenditure/attention span in learning new things. They have other important problems to deal with. Then, when there is a deal-breaker scene change, they will jump to the next big thing.