No one gives tenure to a professor, if he/she doesn’t bring grants to the “educational” establishment. Most of them don’t even like/want to teach.
It only matters if our elected reps can do something about it. Otherwise embrace the suck.
In my time in undergrad and grad school it didn't take long to figure out most professors actually cannot teach. I did have three that were decent.
My military history professor was excellent though. Had that good radio voice you could listen to all day.
The others were content to write "scholarly" articles that practically no one in the real world would ever read.
The library was full of these kinds of articles I'd have to use in my papers.
Most of the professors wouldn't make it in the real world.
And the government agencies and related NGOs and corporations don’t usually give grants unless the scope of research is meant to confirm a specific pre-defined outcome. There is no “let’s find out what X does to Y” there is only “we seek to prove X does this to Y”. So it often starts out with confirmation bias and other biases. So, much of the money that flows is designed to further indoctrinate and confirm beliefs rather than a search for the absolute truth of the matter or exploration of abstract concepts. It’s part of the stranglehold that institutions are trying to deploy to move society at large in a certain social direction.
Though sometimes these attempts fail and the data cannot prove what they wanted it to prove, like the professor who was looking to see racial disparities in police interactions. He had to use two teams because the first team discovered no bias, he didn’t believe it and brought in all fresh eyes to retest it - they came to the same conclusion. He had to concede and not only that, published a book. He admits he expected to see bias but at least now says it doesn’t exist. His reporting was not well received by the institutions. Or the studies showing young dysphoric people were more likely to commit suicide if they were not treated with hormone therapy. Only it turns out those put on hormone therapy are twice as likely to commit suicide than those who just suffer dysphoria. This is how dangerous the grant process and resulting social changes can be.