Research projects are notorious for this. The people behind them aren't very experienced in distributing software (many never heard of docker), the usual langua

Research projects are notorious for this. The people behind them aren't very experienced in distributing software (many never heard of docker), the usual language of choice is Python which has poor packaging, native dependencies complicate things, and everything is on the bleeding edge by definition. Usually, it needs a brave soul to reverse engineer what exact versions of dependencies are needed and make a Colab or Dockerfile that puts it all together.