In an ideal world, wouldn't we want people to be showing their work earlier in the process? Inspiring others to join in on the action? We saw with LK99 the wor

In an ideal world, wouldn't we want people to be showing their work earlier in the process? Inspiring others to join in on the action? We saw with LK99 the world rally around a promising lead and discover some interesting things very quickly. Why not run these kinds of science/eng research problems like we do open source projects? Having good desal is an incredibly important problem that should inspire this kind of collective action. It's not super esoteric research.