Simply put, I can get a better paid gig just developing for the web, without understanding any complicated domain (what the developers do is the complexity). W

Simply put, I can get a better paid gig just developing for the web, without understanding any complicated domain (what the developers do is the complexity). Working in research in general doesn't seem to pay that well or the well paid jobs are few and far. Maybe it's a sector ready to be disrupted by a startup with quality developers; but I still have to see disruption based on improving code quality. It's a tangential aspect as well and doesn't impact much the actual business.