If you want to learn and have a physics/EE background, you might have better luck with a book like Tsividis (also available as a MOOC!)
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Operation-Modeling-Mos-Transistor...
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https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Operation-Modeling-Mos-Transistor...
Seriously though, I wonder if they drive to please the researchers (to any degree).
Depends on whether we re looking at a system in equilibrium or out of equilibrium. Maybe the "shortage" is the equilibrium for the unyielding crappy conditions the company is offering.
What I can imagine, is that the foundry only tests their magic OPC algorithm with DRC clean inputs. If your mask isn't DRC clean, who knows what's coming out the other side.