I didn't have the same feeling when I read the summary. It looks like they uncovered an important disconnect between academic research and real world. From my

I didn't have the same feeling when I read the summary. It looks like they uncovered an important disconnect between academic research and real world. From my experience, some academic fields are more prone to make mistakes because they don't get to test their ideas in a real environment. IC research is a prime example for this. You can't tell a class or a Ph.D. student to tape out a design to TSMC (or an imaginary local fab) to test their design. You can simulate up to a point, but the design never be built in millions and tested in billion scenarios. So, simply saying that "we have the wrong assumptions about how these things are done" is a great correction signal which must be fired more frequently, to bring academia and industry to the same line, and maybe reduce the negative views they hold for each other. ...or I might be totally wrong, of course.