First of all, there exists "living review" journals, where authors are mandated to regularly update their texts every now and then to reflect new developments i

First of all, there exists "living review" journals, where authors are mandated to regularly update their texts every now and then to reflect new developments in the field covered. This seems like something the author ought to really comment on. Secondly, while research and software development have many similarities, the idea that academic research is best conducted with methodologies created to allow efficient development of CRUD applications which nice interfaces is not very credible.