Science Research doesn't happen for its own sake. Every effort needs to be a part of the pipeline of demand and supply. Otherwise it's just a tune that you sing in the shower.

There is an enormous gulf between research in general and the people who should be reading it from a professional point of view. Science communication is really broken and what makes the trade press or press generally is largely about whether a papers authors manage to write a good press release and effectively writes an article themselves.

We need more New Scientist type magazine like things that do decent round ups of scientific findings for various fields that do a good job of shuffling through the thousands of papers a month and finding the highest impact papers. The pipeline from research to use in professions can drastically be improved. At the moment you end up having a hosepipe of abstracts and its a lot of time to review that daily.

Personally, I much prefer “software research” from engineers working in the industry. I’m sceptical of software research being done at universities.