As a real world analyst, I'd love a job where you just sit there and pay me to come up with "insights/deliverables" and not have to worry about implementation details.

Indeed, in my experience, the thought that this is how it's done/what analysts should do is a chief complaint about academic-esque analysts, because they can't actually implement anything or their solution is completely unworkable for real scale/tech environment/software stack.

But I would happily take a job where I can be paid to live in my ivory tower if you know a place that views that as the deliverable of analysis :p

Indeed, I think the comparison of someone delivering a webpage that doesn't run on other browsers is quite an apt analogy...