Academics have different goals, metrics and incentives than industry, but I would seldom call academic work "arrogant". In particular, iterating to make things

Academics have different goals, metrics and incentives than industry, but I would seldom call academic work "arrogant". In particular, iterating to make things easier may or may not be sufficient to get the industry to take a second look at the project, and there is a chance that it may consume enough of the academic's time to ruin their career in academia. It's anecdata, but I have seen a few cases (e.g. Coccinelle) in which an academic essentially hides the fact that their contributions to e.g. an open-source project comes from academic research until after it has been battle-tested by industry.