Nope. Academia has a very sad bottom line as well.
What OP needs is enough financial stability and political will that they can do whatever they want. This can be slowly achieved by grinding at a corporation, taking political control and grinding or by violence / threat of violence.
Academia can be pretty great if you can live with economic uncertainty, non-unreasonable pay and aren't interested in careerism or that your work has any real impact outside handful of other academics.
There's of course a lot of bullshit, but you can sort of choose the tradeoff between bullshit and career development/stability. If you're OK with a high chance of never getting a permanent job, in many places you can do practically whatever you want.
And if you e.g. know how to code, you can usually go to the industry churn as a backup when your grant streak runs out.
But yes, in the bigger picture, the latter are the sustainable course of action. There's only so many, or rather frew, grants.
What OP needs is enough financial stability and political will that they can do whatever they want. This can be slowly achieved by grinding at a corporation, taking political control and grinding or by violence / threat of violence.