Certainly newbie-friendliness is a good attribute (and I'd argue ROS isn't that particularly, even apart from all the bad habits it teaches, there's just a lot

Certainly newbie-friendliness is a good attribute (and I'd argue ROS isn't that particularly, even apart from all the bad habits it teaches, there's just a lot of tutorials for it), but it would be nice to have an alternative that's good for professional use, regardless of whether academia uses it.