@Sophistifunk How about I phrase it this way. For the last 100 years, Universities have existed to produce the managerial class. They should exist to produce the academic class.
This has been bad for science, bad for society, bad for the academics, bad for the managerial class, and bad for the plebs that have to put up with the results. bad for humanity in general. All for a pyramid scheme to fleece people of their money called "education".