Talent in germany is best compensated most for in hierarchical megafauna that is car companys and supply comapany. So its the same as with american financial sector, it attracts the einsteins of today, but wastes them on trivial matters such as financial system micro optimization. It is not status-rewarded to invest into "growing" the cake (aka by discovering new allemende resources) and thus, talent distributions always suffers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons without state or monopoly sponsored research.