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Sure, not a bad view and I don't know much about Brunkow and how she works, to be clear... but: you do need all these things in order to get academic funding so you can work on your ideas. Which I am not saying is a great system, it isn't, but I don't think it is easy to say these days to academic reseachers, especially early career ones, to not care too much about publications.
Edit: it is also the fallacy of saying, look she made it like that, so you can too! While she is likely a massive exception to the rule.
I find that people high up in academics tend to lose touch with reality.
I remember in college one professor ranting and raving about how students worry about grades too much and that we should all focus on actually retaining the material.
It's like yeah that's a pretty thought but 70% of the class was there on scholarship so if we don't make the grade we don't finish and have a mountain of debt.
On a separate occasion the dean of engineering wasted 2 full lectures of ethics class ranting about how we should give to the alumni association and how "it's a privilege to be here so we need to pay it back."
There were over 100 people in that room who were in at least $60k of debt to the school and we still had another semester left before graduation.
These people have brains the size of planets but couldn't comprehend in the slightest how reality gets in the way of their pretty little egalitarian ideals.
and also probably not aware of the JOB market for the students, they are out of touch because they got thiers 20-30+years ago with no competition, or dont have to deal with things like INDEED or screening software. they often give bad advice as advisors(which is forced by college to become advisors), which seems to be common in most universities, just to get you out of the room quicker, so they have to deal with you anymore. also they become super weird if you try to press them on wet-lab work experience or internships.
Most people who stay in academia do so because they couldn't hack it in the real world.
That's why they get so squirrelly when you ask about work experience, they either don't have any or they blew it super hard and had to return to the academia bubble.