Same here except that for me it feels like wasting a lot of time, unlearning all my other skills and not staying up to date with current trends. Having to rewr

Same here except that for me it feels like wasting a lot of time, unlearning all my other skills and not staying up to date with current trends. Having to rewrite polished and reviewed papers is aweful and not publishing stuff (except in a thesis) is unacceptable for many institutions, so I think making papers to chapters is the way to go as long as there isn't something completely different (e.g. no prose but making all data, hardware, software, documentation etc open source)