I enjoyed your comment. I agree with your reasons, though I don't think they are complete. I am not an expert on academia and I don't claim to be, so I have no solutions. I can just see the parallels and the general mechanisms.

I think Nassim Taleb does the best jobs at explaining the general mechanism of the problem: https://medium.com/incerto/an-expert-called-lindy-fdb30f146e...