Give me a break, you are complaining. I don't expect academics to follow enterprise standards. They are more rooted in theory than practice. I expect shitty code, uncommented code, no unit tests. You know that thing SV calls the real MVP? Yup, that's what I expect from academia, the most basic Proof of concept to demonstrate that an idea is possible. Correct is cherished, beauty is not. Note, the correctness is enough for best case/data at hand. What's more important and useful to me and society at large is the papers that follow.

Then there's the group of folks who tend to read those papers and turn it into products. Yes, those are the ones I expect to have repos, unit tests, build systems and all that.