Plenty of good physics got done before modern devops came to be, too! Maybe the pace of advancement was slower when the best practice was to publish a cryptographic hash of your discoveries in the form of a poetic latin anagram rather than just straight-up saying it, but it's not like Hooke's law is considered unreproducible today because you can't deterministically re-instantiate his experimental setup with a centuries-old piece of brass and get the same result to n significant figures.