Yes. As a practitioner it’s very frustrating

I think the situation is pretty analogous to other area with replication crises like psychology and nutrition: local variables dominate. Just like our own body’s there’s a lot that just depends on the domain or the specifics of the problem being solved...

This has been my experience in a related field (information retrieval). There are trends and best practices, but the market and Impossible to recplicate overhyped academic research reinforce each other.