I used to put all the blame of low-quality continuous publications on the researchers doing it. But I see that if you don't do it that way and you give too many details too soon, your ideas might be stolen. What a motivation!

This is so fucked up I wonder if anyone is doing real science anymore. In the end having a different day job and doing research in your own basement doesn't sound that bad anymore.

Unless you are hired by a tech company and get paid as an employee. I know you can do this in Scandinavian countries. You can do your postgraduate studies under a company, and then that company usually hires you. It seems like the only effective way to turn science into a profession. Work experience instead of academia.