It's because academics are spectacularly incompetent compared to professionals. They have no actual practice doing anything. But worse, they think they know wh

It's because academics are spectacularly incompetent compared to professionals. They have no actual practice doing anything. But worse, they think they know what they're doing. Honestly, be thankful you've never worked with an academic, they're honestly the worst work experience you will ever have, arrogant, utterly incompetent and can waste huge amounts of your time by saying intellectually appealing things to management that are a practical disaster.