The interesting thing in this write up ifs the difficulty of securing funding to take care of some of these basic usability issues, or hire dedicated developers

The interesting thing in this write up ifs the difficulty of securing funding to take care of some of these basic usability issues, or hire dedicated developers. A lot of the difficulty is that there are lots of people working on sage, but all of the incentives for the involved researchers and grad students is on writing papers and advancing their own research; there are almost no rewards for improving usability. The job market is brutal, and this kind of computational work simply isn't valued by hiring committees.