Primeagen is a youtube reaction guy. You may as well tell me what hbomberguy, Jay Leno, or Ben Shapiro had to say about it.

He also has an AI harness named after him (Prime Agent) so there's that.

I mean this is funny ad hominiem but OP has a point. Academia has always massively prioritised understanding over outcomes, injecting startup culture into it is basically injecting antimatter.