There is a similar statement by Higgs (the guy who won the Nobel prize for physics for the discovery of the boson named after him) about how the insane pressure

There is a similar statement by Higgs (the guy who won the Nobel prize for physics for the discovery of the boson named after him) about how the insane pressure to constantly publish and produce papers comes at the expense of being able to think really hard about difficult problems. It's a difficult problem. Universities have limited funding, and want to attract professors that get lots of grants to self finance their own research. To get lots of grants, you need to publish lots of high impact papers. To publish lots of papers quickly, you need a lot of PhD students to supervise, and you need to work in a hot and rapidly moving field. This leads to professors acting as glorified managers who spend all their time churning out grants, and spend an incredibly tiny fraction of their time working on their own science.