Your argument is that elitism is good, not that academics don't fit the criteria. Getting paid by the government to write entirely subjective, untestable ideas

Your argument is that elitism is good, not that academics don't fit the criteria. Getting paid by the government to write entirely subjective, untestable ideas about the interaction between glaciers and feminist ideology is a perfect fit for the definition. Pull requests, on the other hand, are not. Their correctness is often tested automatically!