I have a similar experience in my industry. Thousands of publications each year from academia totalling billions of dollars in funding with nearly none of it mattering at all. I've lost track of how many times I read a great title to find it had absolutely nothing of value outside of the researcher getting to aggregate some key words for their profile. It's baaaad.

There are some occasional gems, but it's like a handful per decade that are of true value with the rest not even worth the kB they take up in storage.

I may sound bitter, but when I see the government dollars announced it makes me cringe a little bit as I know there are so many better places for that money.