This is the kind of observation that should be central to CS, but isn't.
While academic algorithm astronauts write papers which include Greek math symbols and can be proven correct, most people do... something else.
Optimising the something else would be a huge benefit to the industry. But no one even looks at it. It's just a thing that happens, and there's no research into fixing it or making it better.
I feel like this is moving in the opposite direction! I think the issue is that most of the time the "something else" people write with poor algorithms is actually an application of the correct, efficient algorithms from formal papers written by academics, but they don't know it and thus don't use it.
While academic algorithm astronauts write papers which include Greek math symbols and can be proven correct, most people do... something else.
Optimising the something else would be a huge benefit to the industry. But no one even looks at it. It's just a thing that happens, and there's no research into fixing it or making it better.