Yes. Life scientist here. This is 100% on point. It seems that most people who comment that we need 100% published repetition aren't aware of how the process currently works as you describe it. Repetition happens regularly if not in the majority of published research. It's just that it often doesn't get written up in a way that one can easily see the connection with the previous work. Citations are supposed to help this problem but because citations aren't just links and are hidden behind paywalls (a whole different can of worms), its not easy to see what's been replicated vs. not.