It is really annoying because a common response is

"We know academia is bad. But this is the best we have and it is hard to improve"

when that is false on two counts.

1. If you had said the same thing before 2016 or covid, people would not agree that academia is rife with fraud or worthy of skepticism. 2. The same people saying the system dismiss how can it be improved are the same ones that would suffer from disruption as you say. They have the power to dismiss these arguments to begin with.