...I apologize to the guy at the bench. [I had my own lab once. Of course, I was twelve years old and it was in my grandmother's shed but with a little sulfur one can turn out some neat stink bombs ]

I see the problem as institutional. There is a pyramid type power structure that demands conformity and preserves itself as well. The result is slow, methodical, and generally correct. Punctuated by moments when some little guy with bad hair and working at the local patent office clears his throat and the pyramid collapses in the proverbial "revolution".

Unfortunately, for us speed is high priority and the current system is not built for speed.