I started my tech career in EDU. I’m not at all surprised.

IT staff who are ambitious and talented don’t last long in education. The pay is very low compared to industry. Where I worked, you could retire with a comfortable pension after a number of service years, so the IT staff outsourced as much as possible so they needed to take zero risks to their nest egg. Blame all the problems on the consultants and do as little as possible.

It’s literally where dreams go to die.

MIT is known for the brilliant professors and students but at the end of the day, running a university is pretty standard stuff. They don’t need a genius rockstar to admin the courseware servers.