I see this a lot in a project I'm involved with where the majority of contributors are from academia. The incentive is to mostly push novel things, often with q

I see this a lot in a project I'm involved with where the majority of contributors are from academia. The incentive is to mostly push novel things, often with questionable practicability, in order to write a paper about it. But nobody will implement the 'boring' features needed to make the thing generally useful.